favorites list problem

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Pamela G.

I have IE 6.0.2800.1106 on a newer EMachines laptop. Just recently I started
having a problem with my favorites list. It has begun to show an "older"
list sometimes, and the current one other times. (minor changes, but obvious
ones mostly involving changes I made a few weeks ago both deleting some
entries and adding others) I have not been able to see any pattern to which
list shows up when. Nor have I found any answers on the MS knowledge base or
a few MVP sites I checked. Any suggestions or solutions here?

Thanks
Pamela
 
In case it is important, I am running Win XP Home, plenty of ram, big hd,
Athlon chip.
 
Hi Pamela,

Is the sort order jumbled? or the entire favorites list is changing?

If the latter, try this:

<Before you see the odd behavior>

Open Registry Editor and goto:

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

In both the locations, look for the value "Favorites" in the right-pane and note down the contents here.


<When you see the odd behavior>

Note down the "User Shell Folders" path again to see if a program is changing the shell folders path?

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

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I have IE 6.0.2800.1106 on a newer EMachines laptop. Just recently I started
having a problem with my favorites list. It has begun to show an "older"
list sometimes, and the current one other times. (minor changes, but obvious
ones mostly involving changes I made a few weeks ago both deleting some
entries and adding others) I have not been able to see any pattern to which
list shows up when. Nor have I found any answers on the MS knowledge base or
a few MVP sites I checked. Any suggestions or solutions here?

Thanks
Pamela
 
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