My Favorites No Longer Appear In Internet Explorer...

...but my Favorites folder is still in My Documents folder.

What’s up with this, and how do I fix it?

P.S. My Favorites bar is unaffected.

 

This is for restoring Favorites from a backup file. I don’t have a backup file, just a Favorites folder.

 

Which version of Windows and Internet Explorer are you using?

 

You are correct, sir.

COMPUTER:
Lenovo ThinkCentre M75e 5042 A7U (desktop)
Processors: ACPI x64-based PC with 4 AMD Athlon II X4 640 Processors 3.00 GHz
USB ports: two 2.0 ports on front & four 3.0 on back
RAM: 16.0 GB (15.7 GB usable)
System type: 64-bit OS

OS:
Windows 10 Pro (64-bit)
Version 1709 (Fall Creators Update)
Build 16299.125

 

I'm not at all convinced Microsoft is paying much attention to IE11/Win 10 compatibility. My wife still runs IE11 on 10 and I see issues arising I wouldn't put up with. Edge is the browser for Win 10 and very nice it is too. Give it a try.

 

plodr is not a bloke, she's a ma'am

 

My apologies.

 

Not very flattering though plodr, surely you've a better pic than that

 

It's just a folder in your profile on the hard disk. In XP it's called Favorites and it's directly in Documents and Settings\<your username>. Don't know the details for Vista and 7. If that folder is empty, they are gone forever.

Most people prefer not to lose them, so include either that folder or the bookmarks file that results from exporting them in their backup. Just in case they are gone. Didn't you?

 

I couldn’t restore my Favorites from a Backup file because I had never created a Favorites Backup file.

The default location for the Favorites folder is C:\Users\<username>\Favorites. But I had put MY Favorites folder at C:\Users\anon\OneDrive\Documents\Favorites. And that worked just fine for a year or so. Until suddenly it didn’t.

So I moved my Favorites folder to the default location, and then I set Favorites > Properties > Location to the default location, and then rebooted. But that didn’t work.

So in regedit, I then set Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders > Favorites to the default location.

Upon exiting regedit via File > Exit, no prompt appeared (such as “Save,” “Apply,” or “OK”). I then rebooted.

But my Favorites still aren’t appearing in my browser (IE11).

Comments?

 

The Favorites disappeared from IE’s dropdown list about two weeks ago. My best guess is that an update DID cause it. System Restore won’t work, because I didn’t have a restore point set.

 

I have a disc image that’s less than two months old, so if push comes to shove, I can get back my Favorites that way.

But since my Favorites folder is intact, surely there must be SOME way to restore my Favorites to the browser without going to the trouble to restore a disc image.

 

I haven’t found a way to fix this problem, which is exactly why I’m asking you gurus. So, I take it that you think there IS no solution to this problem? I’m not being facetious; I’m really just asking.