Sharing favorites on 2 pc's ?

[kovmat]

Hi,

I have 2 pc's networked and would like to some how synchronize my internet explorer favorites? In other words if I add or delete a favorite using one pc it will automatically show up on the other. I am running xp home on one and me on the other. Does anyone know if this is possible and how to do it?

Thanks.

 

[episodic]

ttt for an answer

 

[mikecel79]

Go to this site and download the Win2k3 Resource tools. You only want the robocopy utility from the kit.

Create a batch file on the XP Home machine and put in this command
robocopy <source folder> <destination folder> /mir

What this does is mirror the exact files on the source to the destination. If you remove a favorite from the XP machine it will remove it from the ME machine. You can set this as a scheduled task in Windows and have it run daily or hourly. Of course this only does replication from the XP to ME machine. Robocopy will not run on a Win98 machine.

The other option you can try is use TweakUI to change where the favorites are stored. You can set it to a central folder and change both machine to point to that folder for your favorites. The downside to this is the machine that holds the favorites needs to be on at all times.

 

[kovmat]

Thanks for the tips. I will give it a try.