Transferring Favorites from Me to Vista

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Vorenus - 09 Feb 2008 18:47 GMT

Hello. I am in the process of transitioning from my old (antiquated)
Windows Me PC which uses Internet Explorer 6 to my new, top of the line PC
which uses Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7.

Over the last few years, I have painstakingly saved and organized my
Internet Explorer Favorites into many different folders and would like to
transition (copy) these over to my new PC rather than losing them all and
having to start over.

Can someone recommend the best way to do this? I think I read somewhere
that all IE Favorites reside in one file, which can be copied over the same
file on my new PC? Can someone provide me with step by step instructions
for doing this?

Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you!

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Jim Higgins - 10 Feb 2008 18:35 GMT

>Hello. I am in the process of transitioning from my old (antiquated)
>Windows Me PC which uses Internet Explorer 6 to my new, top of the line PC
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>Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you!

Up through WinXP the favorites were kept in a folder called
"Favorites" as individual files with a size of 1K. I don't know what
Vista does, but I suggest you use IE7 to save a couple of favorites
and then search for a folder named "Favorites" and see if they're
there as separate files. If so, you should be able to copy all your
old favorites to that same folder.

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Transferring Favorites from Me to Vista