Favorites has all kinds of extra junk

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Bridget

I'm not sure what happened, but our Favorites folder in IE
6.0 has all kinds of text files, system folders, etc., but
not the Favorites we had previously bookmarked. I
downloaded a few Windows updates today, but I just noticed
this tonight. Any suggestions?
thanks.
 
Your Registry settings for your Favorites folder has been changed.

You will need to inspect and change these settings using your registry
editor...

Choose the Start\Run menu item and enter Regedit or Regedit32(NT)

Navigate to the following key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders

there you will see a string value for Favorites which should have a value of
something like "c:\Windows\Favorites" but on your machine probably only has
"c:\Windows"

Edit the value and change it to where your Favorites folder is (this can
vary so perhaps check with your system administrator if you are not sure)

Do the same on the following key also

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders
 
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