[Ham-Computers] Removing Favorites

Loren Moline WA7SKT lmoline at hotmail.com
Sun Nov 4 08:38:43 EST 2007


John,

I don't believe favorites are a registry item and they are 1kb each in size.

                                
                                 
Loren

> From: jandlmiller at bellsouth.net
> To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 12:16:19 +0000
> Subject: [Ham-Computers] Removing Favorites
> 
> Not unlike many of you I commenced using Netscape and IE as my browsers, probably in W95B.  IE was furnished with the OS, as I recall, and I added Netscape.  Eventually Netscape faded, or so it seemed, and IE remained with patches galore, so I moved to Firefox as a trial and liked it a lot.
> 
> With considerable effort I kept my IE Favorites and Firefox Bookmarks up to date in each browser on later OS inasmuch as I wasn't ready to make a permanent change.  In this age of XP and Vista my old W95B and W98SE have been retired from the Internet as they have no need to be there.
> 
> To get below the line, I've used Firefox for years, and now rarely even think about IE6 or IE7, let alone use either of them on my XP-Home machines.
> 
> What is the easiest, safest way to delete some or all IE Favorites from the XP machines (or other OS), does it save that much storage space to do so, and are registry changes required or recommended?
> 
> John W0IKT
>  
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