Changing your Favorites Location

You might want to change the location where the Internet Explorer looks for your store Favorite sites.
This can come in useful if you have multiple operating systems (Windows95 and NT 4.0) and want to share
the save set of Favorites or you simply want to have greater control over where you favorites are stored.

1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
3. Double click on Favorites in the right hand panel
4. Enter the new location
5. Click on the OK button
6. Do the same for the User Shell Folders section a few lines down
7. Close Regedit
8. Create the directory you just pointed to
9. Copy any existing Favorites to that location
10. Be sure to include all folders
11. Start the Internet Explorer