how to restore correct 'favorites' location?

in vista, suddenly favorites are gone because the location of the favorites
file is wrong! the good old favorites file is still there in documents, but
the path listed for favorites in IE is a non-existent folder in my 'music'
folder. so favorites comes up empty in the IE menu.
somehow it got changed. how do i tell IE7 (IE8 would not install on this
computer) where it's 'favorites' folder is? this should be the default
location, but where can i set it to that?i
--
musicman toronto

In what operating system?

Try this and see if it helps:
You can change the value of Favorites in the Registry in these
two keys: (ignore the second if the value is not there)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders

For Windows 2000/XP:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders]
Set the Favorites path to : %USERPROFILE%\Favorites


The above should be a REG_EXPAND_SZ value, not REG_SZ


Ref: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFAQ.htm#favorites
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/usershellfolders.htm



....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows -Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.com/index.htm

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:10:01 -0800, in
microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general, musiclover
<> wrote:

>in vista, suddenly favorites are gone because the location of the favorites
>file is wrong! the good old favorites file is still there in documents, but
>the path listed for favorites in IE is a non-existent folder in my 'music'
>folder. so favorites comes up empty in the IE menu.
>somehow it got changed. how do i tell IE7 (IE8 would not install on this
>computer) where it's 'favorites' folder is? this should be the default
>location, but where can i set it to that?i

I have the same problem, but your answer is too complicated for me and this
site http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ie/redxorg.htm=. does not work for me in
Vista IE 8 ( I can't get it to unzip). If I could get a simpler answer, I
would appreciate it

"Alan Edwards" <> wrote in message
news:...
> In what operating system?
>
> Try this and see if it helps:
> You can change the value of Favorites in the Registry in these
> two keys: (ignore the second if the value is not there)
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Shell
> Folders
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\User
> Shell Folders
>
> For Windows 2000/XP:
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\User
> Shell Folders]
> Set the Favorites path to : %USERPROFILE%\Favorites
>
>
> The above should be a REG_EXPAND_SZ value, not REG_SZ
>
>
> Ref: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFAQ.htm#favorites
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/usershellfolders.htm
>
>
>
> ...Alan
> --
> Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows -Internet Explorer
> http://dts-l.com/index.htm
>
> On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:10:01 -0800, in
> microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general, musiclover
> <> wrote:
>
>>in vista, suddenly favorites are gone because the location of the
>>favorites
>>file is wrong! the good old favorites file is still there in documents,
>>but
>>the path listed for favorites in IE is a non-existent folder in my 'music'
>>folder. so favorites comes up empty in the IE menu.
>>somehow it got changed. how do i tell IE7 (IE8 would not install on this
>>computer) where it's 'favorites' folder is? this should be the default
>>location, but where can i set it to that?i

I made no mention of http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ie/redxorg.htm= or
even http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ie/redxorg.htm so I have no idea
where you got that from and what on earth you are trying to unzip.

....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.com/index.htm


On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 17:10:32 -0800, in
microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general, "butchkersh"
<> wrote:

>I have the same problem, but your answer is too complicated for me and this
>site http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ie/redxorg.htm=. does not work for me in
>Vista IE 8 ( I can't get it to unzip). If I could get a simpler answer, I
>would appreciate it
>
>"Alan Edwards" <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>> In what operating system?
>>
>> Try this and see if it helps:
>> You can change the value of Favorites in the Registry in these
>> two keys: (ignore the second if the value is not there)
>>
>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Shell
>> Folders
>>
>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\User
>> Shell Folders
>>
>> For Windows 2000/XP:
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\User
>> Shell Folders]
>> Set the Favorites path to : %USERPROFILE%\Favorites
>>
>>
>> The above should be a REG_EXPAND_SZ value, not REG_SZ
>>
>>
>> Ref: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFAQ.htm#favorites
>> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/usershellfolders.htm
>>
>>
>>
>> ...Alan
>> --
>> Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows -Internet Explorer
>> http://dts-l.com/index.htm
>>
>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:10:01 -0800, in
>> microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general, musiclover
>> <> wrote:
>>
>>>in vista, suddenly favorites are gone because the location of the
>>>favorites
>>>file is wrong! the good old favorites file is still there in documents,
>>>but
>>>the path listed for favorites in IE is a non-existent folder in my 'music'
>>>folder. so favorites comes up empty in the IE menu.
>>>somehow it got changed. how do i tell IE7 (IE8 would not install on this
>>>computer) where it's 'favorites' folder is? this should be the default
>>>location, but where can i set it to that?i

Favorite Links area in Vista & Win7 is empty
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/fa...orer-is-empty/

Unspecified error when adding a link to Favorites in Windows Vista and
Windows 7
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/un...windows-vista/



musiclover wrote:
> in vista, suddenly favorites are gone because the location of the
> favorites
> file is wrong! the good old favorites file is still there in documents,
> but
> the path listed for favorites in IE is a non-existent folder in my 'music'
> folder. so favorites comes up empty in the IE menu.
> somehow it got changed. how do i tell IE7 (IE8 would not install on this
> computer) where it's 'favorites' folder is? this should be the default
> location, but where can i set it to that?i