Favorites no longer appear

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E. F.

What could be the reason that Favorites no longer show for one of the
XP user accounts but still work fine for another?

Account that have 'favorites problem' does have "Favorites" folder at a
proper location and it's not empty.

System seems to be clean from malware.
 
What do you consider "a proper location"?
If the location is wrong in the Registry, you may have problems.

You can change the value of Favorites in the Registry in these
two keys: (ignore the second if the value is not there)

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

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

For Windows 2000/XP:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders]
Set the Favorites path to : %USERPROFILE%\Favorites


The above should be a REG_EXPAND_SZ value, not REG_SZ


Ref: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFAQ.htm#favorites
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/usershellfolders.htm



....Alan
 
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