Tip #1954 - Save Favorites in Internet Explorer
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Save
IE favorites and back them up!
Save your ghost stories
and haunted houses. Let's talk about a real nightmare: losing all your
internet favorites. I don't know about you, but I have a lot of these.
They're organized
by subject: photography, writing, travel, friends, online 'zines, crafts,
stores, humor sites, podcast
pages and directories, sports, webcomics, cool stuff I plan to afford
someday but like drooling over now, you name it. If they were lost in
a computer crash, I'd never find them all again.
Here's a simple way
to save all of your favorites. In Internet Explorer, go to File
and click the Import/Export... option. The Wizard window
will appear (spooky!). Choose Export Favorites and click
Next.
Click the top folder
Favorites to select them all and pick the destination
for your new backup favorites file. Save it to your My Documents
folder or Desktop with a unique name like "favebackup1.htm"
to help distinguish it from any other program's bookmark files on your
system.
Back
up a spare copy of the file by saving it on a flash memory device,
CD, DVD or zip disk, just like the rest of your important information!
~ Chris Fisher
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