Change Favorites-Folder Path
Posted by admin on Jun 22nd, 2006
Hello,i want to change the StandardFavoritesFolder from "C:\USERS\username\FAVORITES" to another place on my second Harddisk but dont know how ... ?Have Windows Ultimate/32.Thanks in advance.
Jun 26th, 2006 at 04:59 pm
Hi,Right click the folder under the user profile and select properties. Go to the locations tab to make the desired change. Best of Luck,Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" Microsoft MVP mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help www.rickrogers.org"kerneloel"
Jun 30th, 2006 at 01:23 pm
Thanks,something is always easier as intended .Best Regards."Rick Rogers"
Jul 3rd, 2006 at 04:59 pm
You'd like to read this also.IEBlog : IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine: blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/03/01/ie7invistafolderredirectionforfavoritesonthesamemachine.aspx Regards,Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] Windows® Troubleshooting winhelponline.com "kerneloel" Thanks,something is always easier as intended .Best Regards."Rick Rogers"
Jul 5th, 2006 at 03:28 pm
That's the Solution :Open an admin command prompt (rightclick Command Prompt and click Run As Administrator) Browse to the folder that contains your favorites folder Type: icacls favorites /setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)lowFound in this Newsgroup.Thanks !"Ramesh, MSMVP" You'd like to read this also.IEBlog : IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine: blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/03/01/ie7invistafolderredirectionforfavoritesonthesamemachine.aspx Regards,Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] Windows® Troubleshooting winhelponline.com "kerneloel" Thanks,something is always easier as intended .Best Regards."Rick Rogers"