Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Search through your Internet Explorer bookmarks the easy way

Internet Explorer is one of my favorite Web Navigators, but it has always lacked a decent and practical "bookmark manager" like the one that comes with Firefox. However, since IE bookmarks are directly attached to your Windows profile you can easily search through your bookmarks, a task that otherwise can become unwieldy since you can easily accumulate hundreds of bookmarks. To find where your IE bookmarks are located do this: 1) Press the Windows Key (left to the ALT key) and the R key simultaneously, which will open the Run utility; 2) In the text box labeled Open type: %HOMEPATH% and then click OK or hit Enter; 3)This will open the current user profile folder C:\Users\YourUserName\, where you should look for a subfolder called Favorites, where bookmarks are organized into folders and subfolders and each link is a file in the form of an Internet Shortcut (.url). Besides, this allows you to organize and re-organize them to your heart's content. Once you get to the Favorites folder you can search by typing key words into the text box with the grayed text that reads "Search Favorites", on the right-hand side of the window. Bingo! By double-clicking on each one of the results you can jump directly onto that particular Web page you had bookmarked.  A little piece of trivia: the Favorites Bar, the one that includes your most visited Websites, for some reason is stored in your system under the C:\Users\YourUserName\Favorites\Links subfolder but it appears in the File Explorer as Favorites Bar.

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