Favorites for Dual Boot Systems...is it possible?

stuman74

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Hello,

I have a system that can dual boot into WinME or Win2k. Is there a way to set the favorites folder to be on a different drive than where it resides as a default in the windows directory? I would love to be able to have the same bookmarks show up when i boot up into either operating system.
 

hominid skull

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In Win2k open regedit and alter the following key to the folder that has your favorites:


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer\User Shell Folders, under the favories field..

That should do it..
 

stuman74

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I will definitely give it a try in Win2k. I tried the same procedure in WinME (it was all located exactly in the same manner as what you had described) but it would keep resetting itself back to the default location no matter what I would do. Any reason why?
 

hominid skull

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If you change the key in user shell folders/favorites it'll work, not in shell folders/favorites - they are different.
 

stuman74

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Bingo! That was it! Maybe I should learn to read :)

Thank you so much for your help!
 

SUOrangeman

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TweakUI allows you to set which directory for Favorites (and other important stuff). I just put Favorites on C: and tell Win2K and WinME to look there. This keeps all of my favicons intact.

-SUO