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Joe - 22 Jun 2007 10:08 GMT

I'm I have transfered my favorites in IE6 from a an XP notebook to my new
Vista notebook. On the XP computer, when I access my favorites menu, the
favorites (folders and their contents) appear in the order I have arranged
them in. I put my most used favorites, like "media" and "software," at the
top of the favorites menu. However, in the favorites folder under documents
and settings, all favorites are arranged alphabetically. After I copied the
favorites folder onto the new computer, I accessed them through IE7 and the
menu showed them in alphabetical order. I could rearrange them one at a time
in the order I want them in, but I have several thousand favorites and it
would take a lot of time.

How does the XP computer keep a record of the menu arrangement of favorites
and is there some way to transfer this record/file to the new computer? TIA.
Joe

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Don Varnau - 22 Jun 2007 11:37 GMT

Hi,
This *should* be safe and effective.

Backup the registry on the Vista machine and create a Restore point.

Export this key from the XP registry
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrd
er\Favorites

Import that key to the Vista registry.

322756- How to back up, edit, and restore the registry in Windows XP and
Windows Server 2003:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

> I'm I have transfered my favorites in IE6 from a an XP notebook to my new
> Vista notebook. On the XP computer, when I access my favorites menu, the
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> and is there some way to transfer this record/file to the new computer? TIA.
> Joe

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Joe - 23 Jun 2007 04:21 GMT

Don Varnau:

I tried your suggestion and it worked like a charm. I exported my
"favorites" registry entry from XP to a disk then imported it into Vista.
Now my Vista favorites menu items are in he same order as they were in XP.
Vista must subsitute the old for the new because all I had to do was click
the "import" button and I received the message that the file had been
imported to the registry and everything worked fine.

Thanks. Joe.

> Hi,
> This *should* be safe and effective.
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> TIA.
> > Joe

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