[Ham-Computers] RE: Removing Favorites

[Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal)]

John,

As mentioned earlier, Firefox (and Netscape) have a much more efficient way of storing bookmarks - everything is contained in the "bookmarks.html" file in the Firefox profile folder.  IE's method of saving each link as a file is not only inefficient (each bookmark "file" takes up 1 cluster of disk space, min of 4K on a hard drive), but difficult to backup if the bookmark name exceeds 64 characters or has some "special" characters.

If you want to delete them, you can just right-click and delete them from within IE.  Or, if you want to delete them all, they're located in the "Favorites" folder.  In Win9x, this folder is found as a sub-folder of the WINDOWS folder.  In Win2K/XP/Vista, the Favorites folder is in \Documents and Settings\userprofile.  Just delete the contents except for the "Desktop.ini" file.  No registry changes are necessary.

73,

  - Aaron, NN6O


-----Original Message-----
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 4:16 AM
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