How to keep IE from adding 'favorites' links?? 1

[BobTheMad]

Whenever IE is started, it ALWAYS adds several folders to the user's Favorites listings. Is there a way to keep this from happening?

Thanx in advance

 

[ackka]

I have had this problem as well, other programs like corel's wordperfect do this as well. It really is not a big deal to me, but if you want you can write a simple batch file that will delete these folders on startup. Something like this should work

@echo off
cd cd C:\WINDOWS\Favorites
rmdir folder name

just put this in the start up folder, and it should work, if you need more just email me....

later
ackka
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[BobTheMad]

Yeah, I already have something like this in place, and it works just great on startup. The only problem is that if these folders are deleted, and then IE is started again, it re-creates them. You cannot even solve this with a batch file that deletes the folders then starts IE, because it's IE that recreates them when run.

 

[SIG357]

I have had this problem also, and correct me if I'm wrong, but do you mean that you delete the Favorites folders that you dont want, but the next time IE starts they're back again, correct?

That was my problem, and here's how I solved it:
If you explore to C:\Windows\Favorites, you will see a listing of everything in you IE Favorites listing: folders and Internet shortcuts. All you have to do is right click on the folder you don't want, go to Properties, check the "Hidden" box, then Apply. This will keep that unwanted crap out of IE.

Hope that helps
Joe

 

[ackka]

wonderful sig357 that works perfectely i forgot that Windows does a directory grab and doesnot show hidden files thanks very much....

ackka
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[BobTheMad]

Thanks SIG357, that worked prefectly... =)

 

[bailsoft]

If you like to see all files in Windows Explorer, including hidden files, you might find the following of interest.
A particularly annoying folder (to me anyway) is the 'Links' folder. Why IE insists it be present is beyond me. To get rid of this troublesome folder, search the registry for 'LinksFolderName' and change the string value to match the name of one of your own 'Favourites' folders.
That way IE does not create a 'Links' folder.
Hope this is of help to some of you with similar personality disorders (LOL).