Webmaster Forum / Browsers / Internet Explorer / August 2007

Well, you proceed to some local/network drive and:
"this instruction step list is, at best, generic", YMMV.

1). Create a new folder called ?? Perhaps "Favorites".
2). Using Windows Explorer, find the OS favorites on
   the OS load drive.
3). Open this favorites folder.
4). Right click somewhere in the whitespace of the view
   pane, and select New.
5). Select Shortcut.
6). Using browse, find the shared favorites created in #1.
7). Proceed to title the shortcut entry. Mine is simply
   called Favorites.
8). Save the new shortcut entry.

Now, you have created the shared favorites folder, and
created the link from the OS favorites. To verify this,
select the favorites entry in the OS, and then click on
the internal favorites referencing your shared favorites.

If this opens the shared favorites, that's what is desired.
You are ready to proceed. If not, there's an error some-
where.

So, with the shared favorites open using Windows Expl-
orer:

1). Select he big start button, and choose run.
2). Type www.whitehouse.gov and press enter.
3). Using the mouse, highlight the url in the address bar
   at the top of the page. Press ctrl-c to copy.
4). Kill the whitehouse page. (will that get me a call from
   the NSA, and thrown in jail?).
5). Returning to the shared favorites currently open in
   Windows Explorer, right click the whitespace in the
   view pane, and choose new.
6). Select shortcut.
7). When the shortcut box appears, enter ctrl-f to paste
   the whitehouse url. Press enter/click ok.
8). Name the shortcut "test", "whitehouse", "terriorism",
   etc. Whatever you want. (oops! another NSA call).
9). Close all the open applications/folder views.

Now, using your chosen method, access the favorites
residing on the OS load drive. (You could just START,
and choose favorites). From within this favorites, select
the shared favorites, and click on that entry.

When the shared favorites list opens, you'll see the entry
for the whitehouse. Click on the whitehouse entry, and
you should proceed to the whitehouse url.

Well? does it work?

However, the downside to this is that it's a little more
work to populate the shared favorites that it was to just
say "add an entry" for the OS favorites. Also, you'll have
to visit all the network systems to link the two favorite
definitions. As an alternative, you could just supply a
desktop icon for the shared favorites. You have several
choices.

I'm out for a dog walk, I'll check back with 'ya at return.

Thanks,

Gary