• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

save bookmarks onto a different computer?

D

dbarton

Senior member

As i browse pages on my PC, I'd like to save some bookmarks onto a *different* computer on my network that my g/f uses, so she can check out the sites I'd like her to see..

Any clever way to do this?
 

IE, but don't want to export all my bookmarks.

Just as I see a site, I want to selectively save to a networked machine.
 
To clarify, I want to save a url right into her directory on her computer so she just opens IE as normal and there's new bookmarks in her browser.

Like "send to", but for Internet Explorer, so i can right click and send link to her favorites.
 
The easiest solution would be a social bookmarking service like del.icio.us

IE stores bookmarks in C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Favorites so I suppose you could just copy the individual shortcuts or the entire directory over. It may have some sort of voodoo I don't know about, though.
 
You can change your bookmarks location to be on her machine, but there are issues.

ANY bookmark either of you saves goes to BOTH of you.

If HER machine is shut off, I don't know what would happen, but I assume you would have an empty bookmarks folder or would throw an error.

If you have access to her machine on the network, then write down the location of her bookmarks (e.g. \\gfmachine\c$\Documents and Settings\<username>\Favorites)

Download the TweakUI powertoy from Microsoft (google powertoys... you'll find it!)

In TweakUI, go to My Computer ==> Special Folders ==> Favorites and you can change the path to your favorites to the one listed above.

Put the path to the new favorites in Explorer and open a window. Leave it open.

Then... right click your start button and hit OPEN. From that window, go up one lever and then go into your favorites folder. Highlight and copy all your favorites and paste them into the open window with your favorites on the other machine.

I don't think you really want to do this though!

I bet there's a way to hack Internet Explorer's File==>Send feature so that you can choose something other than desktop... but I know not how.

Joe

 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top