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I upgraded a neighbor's system for them (W98->XP) and the XP IE didn't retain
their favorites. Anyway to find or import them from the old W98 folder still
on the hard drive?
Thanks, Jay

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Windows 9x stores the favorites in C:\Windows\Favorites path, whereas in
Windows 2000/XP it's within the user profile homepath. Move the files *.URL
and folders from C:\Windows\Favorites to %Userprofile%\Favorites

--
Ramesh, MS-MVP XP Shell/UI
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k


"Jay" <Jay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I upgraded a neighbor's system for them (W98->XP) and the XP IE didn't
retain
their favorites. Anyway to find or import them from the old W98 folder
still
on the hard drive?
Thanks, Jay

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Ramesh, what puzzles me is when I did the upgrade on one my own computers the
favorites were all move over automatically,


"Ramesh [MVP]" wrote:

> Windows 9x stores the favorites in C:\Windows\Favorites path, whereas in
> Windows 2000/XP it's within the user profile homepath. Move the files *.URL
> and folders from C:\Windows\Favorites to %Userprofile%\Favorites
>
> --
> Ramesh, MS-MVP XP Shell/UI
> http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
>
>
> "Jay" <Jay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:69AFE5BC-822A-4593-B674-4907B57C99D7@microsoft.com...
> I upgraded a neighbor's system for them (W98->XP) and the XP IE didn't
> retain
> their favorites. Anyway to find or import them from the old W98 folder
> still
> on the hard drive?
> Thanks, Jay
>
>
>

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