Favorites Folder Star Icon Gone
Sep 1, 2006
I don't know when or what could have caused the bright yellow star folder icon for the Favorites that links to IE but now I see I have a plain old regular folder icon. It's never been moved out of the original spot which is C:/Documents and Settings/user/Favorites. This does not make the folder unusable as IE still saves and gets shortcuts from it. I'm wondering if any of you out there have ever ran into this or any ideas of getting getting the original star icon back. This is on a WINXP Pro system with all the latest Microsoft updates.
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Apr 26, 2007
I hope someone knows the solution to this.On the favorites bar in IE6, when you click on the default folder icon it changes to an open folder as the list of links expands. I changed the yellow folders to different colors but would like to be able to have them change to an open folder of the same color when clicked on rather then staying as the same icon. Does anybody know of a way to do that? I know there must be a different path to the 2 icons (open and closed). I have made the icons in the colors I want in both open and closed but can't figure out how to get it to work.
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Jun 28, 2005
On a Windows Media Center Edition 2004 Notebook Computer I can't seem to assign a custom icon to a folder in Favorites. I can copy the same folder to the desktop and customize the icon.My old machine running Windows XP Pro allowed customization of Favorites Folders and this machine seems to allow me to do it, but when I am done the manilla folder icon still remains stubbornly there. Folder seems to be read only. Windows Firewall is turned off. Web root Spy Sweeper is off, though I think new version runs a process no matter what.
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Jan 18, 2005
I formatted my drive and reinstalled XP last week. I saved all the pictures in the My Pictures folder to CD and I also saved the Favorites to CD. I have learned (from Mr. Brody) how to put the pictures back in the My Pictures folder. I now need to know how to put the favorites back in the Favorites menu. Do I simply go down the page of links and add each link or is there some other way?
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Apr 30, 2007
I mistakenly copied the XP Favorites Folder within in itself twice. Now when you go to C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersFavorites you see two more Favorites Folders inside the original.When trying to delete the extra two Favorites Folders we get an error message Favorites is a Windows system folder and is required for Windows to run properly. It cannot be deleted.Is there a way to delete these two unnecessary Favorites Folders within the original?
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Mar 6, 2010
Used to be that when I was searching through folders in favorites that it would return to that folder when reviewing the different web pages within that folder. Now I have to search for the folder each time I view a page within the folder. I have XP SP3 with IE8. Is there any way to change the way favorites works (options)? I hate that favorites closes every time instead of staying open while you're trying to find a particular page. Seems its gotten less friendly through the years.
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Apr 9, 2007
lost my windowsxp home,a friend offered to install his copy and said it would fine.it worked until i found out my copy wasn't genuine.in those 2 yrs all was fine,lost contact w/friend.Now couldn<t download xpservice pack 2,and the recently purchased norton anti virus would not work.was told needed to get new xpcd.was ok with that but not wanting to loose data had my bussness parter's boyfriend who work on pc take my desktop to save all my datas on an external drive.when went to pick up pc the external drive could not be read.I was devastated.thru a recovery program he was able to recover pictures and emails from my original drive and he transered all into a new external drive.but my favorites folder wasn't not recovered.and i had a bunch of adress from months of research that i really need.he tells me there is no hope.is this true?one more question,i had some back up of that folder on cd,now that my pc is all ok(genuinexp etc)do i just put these cd and re-instal those save favorites?I learned my lesson and want to make regular weekly back-ups,which program are best.faily new at this.
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I'm wondering, is it possible to create a folder right beside the favorites in IE7? (Just to the left of the tabs.) I know folders can be created inside of the Favorites folder, but I was wondering if there could be a folder created right beside it, or in some place else that it would show up there or also where the Favorites is on the right side of the start menu.
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Aug 3, 2005
For some unknown reason, my Favorites Folder's Icon, (i.e. C:D& SUser's Name Favorites), has reverted from its' accustomed "Yellow Star" to a "Default" Windows' Folder. The same applies to to the Favorites Icon Shortcut on my Start Menu.The "Yellow Star" is present in C:D&SAdministratorFavorites; however, if I copy the Desktop.ini file from the Administrator folder to my user name, or simply attempt to customize it manually via the "Change Icon" method in "Properties", I still get nowhere.
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Aug 12, 2002
in IE, click on favorites and right click on links, propreties, check readonly and hidden.it will never show again in your favorite list Note: Alternatively you can use tweakui (by Allan, forum admin)
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Sep 29, 2005
i was organizing and updating my favorites folder in order to make a backup. i got to this one link that kept slowing down my computer and forcing me to use ctrl-alt-del to "end task". it was a familiar link and nothing that I didn't intentionally put there. after the third time trying to open it and using "end task" to close it all of a sudden the entire contents of the folder disappeared. everytime I try to open the favorites folder nothing is there. i have spent years building that folder up and now it's all gone. I have tried to use a delete recovery program and nothing is there. this just happened this second and need some help so that I can possibly fix it before having the computer re-write on top of the files eliminating any chance of recovery.
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May 31, 2006
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Apr 9, 2006
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Feb 22, 2008
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Sep 22, 2007
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