Re: Possible to move Favorites to another drive?

"Bob" <> wrote in message
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> It used to be possible to change the location of "Favorites" via
> TweakUI/PowerToys or via registry edit. Can this still be done in
> IE8?
>

Depends on your version of Windows, which you failed to divulge...

"Bob" <> wrote in message
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> I failed to divulge that cause I didn't know that would matter to the
> browser software. But I'm running several flavors of Windows: XP,
> Vista, Win7 32 and Win7 64. (I'm a programmer, and I have to check
> performance on various platforms)
>
> Which ones support moving the Favorites folder?
>


Vista and Windows 7 both support moving the Favorites folder via the
"location" tab in Favorites-Properties (that's in Windows Explorer not in
IE)
XP I'm not sure about.

"Gordon" <> wrote in message news:...
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> "Bob" <> wrote in message
> news...
>> I failed to divulge that cause I didn't know that would matter to the
>> browser software. But I'm running several flavors of Windows: XP,
>> Vista, Win7 32 and Win7 64. (I'm a programmer, and I have to check
>> performance on various platforms)
>>
>> Which ones support moving the Favorites folder?
>>
>
>
> Vista and Windows 7 both support moving the Favorites folder via the
> "location" tab in Favorites-Properties (that's in Windows Explorer not in
> IE)

> XP I'm not sure about.


Drag-move. Might work in Vista and W7 too except for UAC interfering.


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Get TweakUI which does this for XP. I use it.
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Norm

"Bob" <> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:29:13 -0000, "Gordon" <>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Bob" <> wrote in message
>>news:. ..
>>> It used to be possible to change the location of "Favorites" via
>>> TweakUI/PowerToys or via registry edit. Can this still be done in
>>> IE8?
>>>
>>
>>Depends on your version of Windows, which you failed to divulge...
>
> I failed to divulge that cause I didn't know that would matter to the
> browser software. But I'm running several flavors of Windows: XP,
> Vista, Win7 32 and Win7 64. (I'm a programmer, and I have to check
> performance on various platforms)
>
> Which ones support moving the Favorites folder?
>
> BTW, I know that there are registry mappings for some Win-specific
> folders--I just didn't think that the OS itself was particular about
> them.