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Back up your Favorites list
Backing up your Favorites is a good idea!
If you ever have to reinstall Internet Explorer or Windows, one thing that is easy to forget about is your Favorites list, and that can take a long time to reconstruct. In Internet Explorer 5, the process is a simple one. Select File, Import and Export, then choose Export Favorites before picking your entire Favorites folder. Choose a location and a name, and your Favorites will be stored as a single HTML file, which can be re-imported later using the same wizard.
If your version of Internet Explorer doesn’t do this, a more time-consuming option remains. However, this option gives the user a better idea of where the files go and how to restore them.
Simply open up your Favorites folder in (Windows Explorer) - Favorites is under C:\Windows\Favorites
hold [Ctrl] and manually select those favourites you want to keep, or select them all.., then copy them on to a blank disk, or spot on your hard drive that you will remember. Reinstalling them is a simple case of copying them from the disk back into the Favorites folder.
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