IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

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re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

Larry Seltzer — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:35:53 GMT

I've done the registry key redirection on XPSP2 and if I use a drive mapping, as in your example, IE bombs on startup in ieframe.dll. If I use a UNC mapping it loads OK.

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

Jason Coombes — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:05:39 GMT

Quote: Please note: If you are attempting to do this in Windows XP, the Shell UI(location tab) does not exist. You simply cut and paste [..] your old favorites folder to the new location. This hack is definitely not supported in Vista.

Yes it is very much supported in Vista and is how I "move" all of my personal shell folders by cutting and pasting them into a new location. This is the first thing I do after installing Vista as I've always kept my shell folders on another drive. There is one extra step however and that is removing the old empty folders from their original location.

Thanks for the post though, really useful information and the more people storing their personal data away from the OS the better as it allows for easier recovery should you need to format the OS drive and re-install.

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

michaud — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:59:30 GMT

I'm thinking: Can I put an url in this field???

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

KS — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:20:34 GMT

It should be noted that "copy and paste" does *not* work. Not on Vista and not on XP. The article is wrong in this respect. It should be obvious, why. If you copy and paste you would end up with *two* Favorites folders and the shell wouldn't know which one to use. The correct way to "move" the Favorites folder in XP (or any other Windows version for that matter) is to "move" that folder. That is either drag and drop it to a new location (which I find the easiest way doing it) or cut and paste it to a new location. That is basically the same kind of operation for the shell.

Jason, thanks for confirming that it still works.

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

KS — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:35:14 GMT

Nomita, I would like to see a comment from you or anyone knowledgable on the fact that there is no global (shared) Favorites folder for all users, despite the fact that it is a much demanded feature and despite the fact that such a folder exists in profile path\all users - but doesn't get used. It's been existing since IE3 or 4, but has never been used by any IE incarnation, including IE7. Why?

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

tim — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:29:19 GMT

Wouldn't all this be much easier if IE fixed their favorites to use one file, containing all the links rather than 1 file for every link?

This would solve the length limitation that makes bookmarklets on IE a waste of time, it would make searching inline, much easier, and more metadata can be tracked, and best of all, if you want to copy/move your bookmarks, all you have to do is grab 1 file, easy as pie!

tim

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

Nate — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:06:41 GMT

I do this with all my folders, unfortunatley, some Microsoft teams, Windows Messenger, shell teams, can't seem to read the redirected path from the registry and instead hard-code the path, which recreates another folder in your profile with the same name. It's stupid.

Windows Messenger is guilty, and the Desktop redirection doesn't work. Saved Games folder didn't work up until RTM. We can all thank me for that one! :)

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

Scoop0901 — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:52:21 GMT

Great tip for IE's favorites. I have all my "real" files -- my critical stuff on different drives and directory paths. The C drive is used only for installation -- then into paths I choose -- ones that make sense to me.

I hate when some software companies have a product that wants to burrow down six directories before installing the product, such as:

c:/program files/Company Name/Product Line/Product Cheerleader/Version/Product Name/Install Dir/

That kind of thing drives me mad.

Thanks for the tip on easily moving the Favorites directory to the path I want. It works better than making a shortcut to the path where I keep them, for real, which has worked for years.

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

Andy C — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:09:07 GMT

Hacking the Shell Folders key is surely not a supported option, since that key exists purely as a backwards compatibility hack.

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/11/03/55532.aspx

lf you don't want to use the UI, the group policy settings would be the way to go.

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:08:33 GMT

OMG! That reload button position is sooooooo annoying!!!!

Please, please, please will someone tell me how on earth I can move it back where it belongs on the left side of the address bar. (bonus points if you know how to get the Stop button there too)

I don't care if it is a registry hack, or even an extension, no matter what crud it comes with, or even if it is not free!

Most annoying "new feature" in IE7 EVA!

I can see how it happend now:

MS Developers:

"Yeah, well we can create this new interface with tabs n stuff, but users won't be able to modify the layout of their toolbars anymore and many will complain about us moving critical buttons to the other side of the screen"

Managers:

"Well, we have to have tabs to compete will all the other browsers, they can live with some lack of customizability for now, and in a couple years we'll add it back in."

Thanks for Innovating!..... NOT

IE7

Zoetrope — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 11:49:35 GMT

Just one quickity-speedy thing...why have I been asked to download IE7 three times when I already have it? Very puzzling...

And also...Feeds. Why can't you add them without opening them? It's a point of extreme annoyance for all us slower-internet types. Meaning those of us without broadband. It'd be nice if you'd cater for us.

FSB

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:46:23 GMT

If you do not have full control, you will not be able to add new favorites and will encounter an ‘unspecified error’

^^ That's Microsoft

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

Viktor Krammer — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:36:23 GMT

@ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Relocating Reload/Stop button:

Here is the extension you are looking for: http://www.quero.at/

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

Craig — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:37:55 GMT

Don't know where else to put this - performance problem

Upgraded xpsp2 home to premium home vista, upgrade successful by every account, performs well, OS great

I'm a long time lover of IE but something is horribly wrong with IE7 on vista - it is painfully slow - to the point of being unusable - firefox is much quicker - this can't be right, there must be some optimization i am missing - i am current with all windows updates

can you blog about ie7/vista performance issues? any other takers? do i have specific machine problems or is this a common view?

how can i possibly drop ie in favour of firefox?? help me out here...

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

Nomita(MSFT) — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:32:31 GMT

'Copy and paste' will work in XP as long as you delete the original favorites folder after the copy action and thus have only one set of favorites. However I agree that cut and paste or move is a better option as it reduces the extra step of deleting.

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

Randy — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:25:20 GMT

Thanks for the extra stuff in this - I move other "special" folders in XP/2003 so I did the same to Vista... found the permissions issue the hard way: http://www.randyrants.com/2007/01/note_to_self_pe.html

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

... — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:28:51 GMT

luogo interessante, soddisfare interessante, buon!

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

Nomita(MSFT) — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:59:46 GMT

@Larry Seltzer

I would really like to learn a bit more about your scenario. It will be nice if you could share more specifics about your environment etc by sending email to the ieblog. That will give me a chance to assist you in resolving your issue.

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

antisexy — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:25:57 GMT

I've done the registry key redirection on XPSP2 and if I use a drive mapping, as in your example, IE bombs on startup in ieframe.dll. If I use a UNC mapping it loads OK.

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

Chris Hynes — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:27:23 GMT

This is nice, but what I really want to do is move the whole users folder to a different drive. So C:\Users becomes D:\Users and all user data is there. How can I do that?

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

Ron — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:03:53 GMT

Can I also move the Recorded TV folder (Vista Media Center) to another drive? It doesn't have this Location tab and I would really like to put my recorded TV on a separate disk.

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

... — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:17:31 GMT

Luogo molto buon:) Buona fortuna!

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

... — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:46:41 GMT

E evidente che il luogo e stato fatto dalla persona che realmente conosce il mestiere!

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

duuude — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:27:48 GMT

Make a folder on your separate drive or partition like e:\Users\Smartguy\Favorites

Then click on Start button, right-click on your user name

Then you will see the blue folder "Favorites" (with the yellow star creeping out)... Right click on that, and select "Properties"

Click on "Location"

Enter e:\Users\Smartguy\Favorites as the new location

delinetciler

delinetciler — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:10:36 GMT

re: IE7 in Vista: Folder Redirection for Favorites on the Same Machine

... — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:42:46 GMT

luogo interessante, soddisfare interessante, buon!

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