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Make Your Own Desktop
'Favorites' & 'Bookmarks' Folders

I continue to receive questions regarding "Favorites" in Internet Explorer and AOL (which are known as "Bookmarks" in Firefox and Chrome).

  • How do I move my IE Favorites to Firefox Bookmarks?
  • How do I move my Bookmarks or Favorites to a new computer?
  • How do I alphabetize my Favorites/Bookmarks?

I have one answer to all these questions:
Eliminate the frustration and aggrevation by ditching all that stuff and creating your own Favorites or Bookmarks folders, over which you will have complete, easy-to-manage control.

Favorites and Bookmarks are nothing more than a collection of Internet Addresses (a.k.a. URLs, or Uniform Resource Locators).

    A URL (Internet Address) consists of 2 parts:
  1. A plain text name, such as Don's Home Page.
  2. An underlying HTML address, such as: http://www.pcdon.com.
The combination of these elements responds to being clicked by the 'pointing finger' symbol. and takes you to the target website, such as: Don's Home Page

How to make your own
Favorites or Bookmarks folders:

Right-click your Desktop and choose File>New>Folder.

Then name the folder something like My Faves.

Next go to a site whose URL you want to put inside the folder.

Finally, drag the tiny symbol such as or or
(to the left of the URL) into your 'Faves' folder (or temporarily onto your Desktop if the Faves folder is out of view).

Now anytime you want to visit a favorite site, just open the folder and click its name. Want to sort (alphabetize) the list? Just click on the Name header in the folder. Click it again to reverse the sort order.

Want to move your faves to a new computer? Just drag this folder onto a USB flash memory drive, move the drive to the target computer and drag the folder onto its Desktop. Do you occasionally switch from IE to Chrome to Firefox? It matters not – your Desktop Faves folder is available no matter which browser you're using at the moment or if you're not even online.

Phony Internet Addresses

This brings up another very important point: a webpage designer can use any name he wants for the blue text, meaning the true HTML address could be a nefarious Russian site with text that reads something like: Microsoft Customer Service.

You can check the verasity of any URL by right-clicking it and choosing Copy Shortcut or Copy Link Address, upon which you can paste the copied link onto a text page or a yellow sticky to see where the link would actually take you.



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