Will a user keep their favourites?

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A user has just had a hardware swapout with a software upgrade (W2K to XP).
Using AD2003 also, will the favourites have been stored somewhere as
obviously the old store on the c drive will have been lost.

Thanks
 
Hi,

Unless the user backed up the favorites to a network location, then probably
not. These are still stored on the local machine profile.

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havenlad said:
A user has just had a hardware swapout with a software upgrade (W2K to XP).
Using AD2003 also, will the favourites have been stored somewhere as
obviously the old store on the c drive will have been lost.

Thanks
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Had this been addressed before disposing of the older hard drive the
favorites could have EASILY been backed up to a CD-R, thumb drive or
even a 3 1/2 inch floppy disk. An Internet Explorer "favorite" is simply
a document shortcut file that directs the browser to the page's web
address. On the boot partition of the hard drive look for the
"\Documents and Settings\Log In Name\Favorites" (substitute the user's
log in name) folder. You can use Windows Explorer to copy those files to
a folder on ANY writable media. The shortcut files are only a single
Kilobyte, so even a floppy can handle hundreds of them AS LONG AS THEY
ARE IN A FOLDER. Limitations on the directory structure strictly limit
the quantity of files that can be stored outside folders. with
relatively small files like the shortcuts this "root directory" can get
full LONG before the floppy runs out of space.
 
Depends on how the upgrade was performed. If it was an in-place upgrade
from W2K to XP, it is possible they are still there.

If it was a reformat from W2K to XP ... nope ... sorry.
 
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