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kdhenry

Flightless Bird
I am upgrading from Vista IE8 to Win-7 IE8. I have a folder from past
versions of IE which I call Favorites-OLD (also contains sub-folders).
I want to place this folder in a place where IE8 in Win-7 can use them but
cannot find the appropriate location.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
thank you
kdhenry
 
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PA Bear [MS MVP]

Flightless Bird
Are you doing an In-Place Upgrade?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


kdhenry wrote:
> I am upgrading from Vista IE8 to Win-7 IE8. I have a folder from past
> versions of IE which I call Favorites-OLD (also contains sub-folders).
> I want to place this folder in a place where IE8 in Win-7 can use them but
> cannot find the appropriate location.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> thank you
> kdhenry
 
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kdhenry

Flightless Bird
No way!
I always do a new installation from scratch

kdhenry

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:#M#HzodALHA.1448@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Are you doing an In-Place Upgrade?
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
>
>
> kdhenry wrote:
>> I am upgrading from Vista IE8 to Win-7 IE8. I have a folder from past
>> versions of IE which I call Favorites-OLD (also contains sub-folders).
>> I want to place this folder in a place where IE8 in Win-7 can use them
>> but
>> cannot find the appropriate location.
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>> thank you
>> kdhenry

>
 
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PA Bear [MS MVP]

Flightless Bird
"kdhenry" <no one@home.net> wrote in message
news:-OqndRAfALHA.5536@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> No way!
> I always do a new installation from scratch
>
> kdhenry
>
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:#M#HzodALHA.1448@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Are you doing an In-Place Upgrade?
>> --
>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
>>
>>
>> kdhenry wrote:
>>> I am upgrading from Vista IE8 to Win-7 IE8. I have a folder from past
>>> versions of IE which I call Favorites-OLD (also contains sub-folders).
>>> I want to place this folder in a place where IE8 in Win-7 can use them
>>> but
>>> cannot find the appropriate location.
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>> thank you
>>> kdhenry

>>
 
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PA Bear [MS MVP]

Flightless Bird
First, you'll want to export your Vista bookmarks so that you can then
import them into IE8 running on your Win7 computer; cf.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/Import-or-export-favorites-in-Internet-Explorer

Assuming Favorites-OLD is an HTM (or HTML) file, place a copy of
Favorites-OLD in, say, My Documents folder on the Win7 computer.

Now open Favorites-OLD.HTM (or Favorites-OLD.HTML) and use the keyboard
shortcut CTRL+D to add it to IE's Favorites folder. After doing so, you'll
find Favorites-OLD listed in Favorites Center.
--
~PA Bear

kdhenry wrote:
> No way!
> I always do a new installation from scratch
>
>> Are you doing an In-Place Upgrade?
>>
>> kdhenry wrote:
>>> I am upgrading from Vista IE8 to Win-7 IE8. I have a folder from past
>>> versions of IE which I call Favorites-OLD (also contains sub-folders).
>>> I want to place this folder in a place where IE8 in Win-7 can use them
>>> but
>>> cannot find the appropriate location.
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
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kdhenry

Flightless Bird
Favorites-OLD is actually a folder with sub-folders.
I'm not sure how I got it to work but it is now available in IE8.

Thank you for your feedback, it is truly appreciated

kdhenry



"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:#K2IhWfALHA.5536@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> First, you'll want to export your Vista bookmarks so that you can then
> import them into IE8 running on your Win7 computer; cf.
> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/Import-or-export-favorites-in-Internet-Explorer
>
> Assuming Favorites-OLD is an HTM (or HTML) file, place a copy of
> Favorites-OLD in, say, My Documents folder on the Win7 computer.
>
> Now open Favorites-OLD.HTM (or Favorites-OLD.HTML) and use the keyboard
> shortcut CTRL+D to add it to IE's Favorites folder. After doing so,
> you'll find Favorites-OLD listed in Favorites Center.
> --
> ~PA Bear
>
> kdhenry wrote:
>> No way!
>> I always do a new installation from scratch
>>
>>> Are you doing an In-Place Upgrade?
>>>
>>> kdhenry wrote:
>>>> I am upgrading from Vista IE8 to Win-7 IE8. I have a folder from past
>>>> versions of IE which I call Favorites-OLD (also contains sub-folders).
>>>> I want to place this folder in a place where IE8 in Win-7 can use them
>>>> but
>>>> cannot find the appropriate location.
>>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

>
 
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