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Vista Favorites Problem and solution

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I know.  You are supposed to spell "Favourites" with a "u" in the middle.  However, I'm going to sway towards convention and use the Americanisation of the English language in this post, for indexing purposes only. 

I'm the kind of guy who likes to keep his operating system and documents partition separate.  If I need to blow away my PC and install a new OS it simplifies the deployment by not having to back up all my documents, music and movies and favorites.

Now that Windows Vista stores favorites under my profile folder, I can move them with all my other documents and files to another partition.  When I first did this, I came across a problem when trying to save new favourites (sorry) favorites in Internet Explorer.  I received an error and I could not proceed with the creation of the nw favorite. 

I came across an explanation (and fix) for this the other day and it looks like that because Internet Explorer is running in protected mode (low privileges) it can't modify or create new files on another partition.  The work around is quite easy to do and will basically allow IE access to your favorites folder so that it may save new items there.

  • Open a command prompt with Admin privileges (right-click Command Prompt and click Run As
    Administrator    )
  • Browse to the folder that contains your favorites folder
  • Type: icacls favorites /setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)low

Hat tip to Jimmy Brush on the Windows Vista Forums.

Technorati tags: Vista, IE, Protected Mode, Favorites

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Hi Fred you're welcome!

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Pleasure! thanks for sharing your fix/experience. Cheers James

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    to get an admin prompt, open the start menu and search for "cmd" right click cmd and hit "Run as Administrator".  This will open a command prompt running with administrator privelages.  You can then type in the command. Cheers James

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Hi Stuart In my case my favorites folder is located at e:favorites, so I would first type "e:" into the command prompt followed by "cd favorites". Cheers James

  • Anonymous
    February 27, 2007
    Hey James, Thank you very much for that! I encountered the same problem because my "Users" folder is not located on the system partition (thanks to Autounattend.xml) and the workaround you provided worked! Thanks, once again. Fred

  • Anonymous
    November 04, 2007
    Open a command prompt with Admin privileges (right-click Command Prompt and click Run As Administrator) Browse to the folder that contains your favorites folder Type: icacls favorites /setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)low Can you clear this up for me? Where is the command promp?

  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2008
    Can you help further with this, I can get to the command prompt bit but I don't know how to browse the files can you advise please?

  • Anonymous
    March 29, 2008
    You can just specify a full path to your favorites: icacls d:users<username>favorites (OI)(CI)low I hope it helps - worked for me BTW - Thanks James! solved my problem :)

  • Anonymous
    April 21, 2008
    Ok so when i try this fix it says access denied. I'm not familiar with command promts at all so any help would be appreciated

  • Anonymous
    June 03, 2008
    I'm blond and your advise doesn't help me at all admin prompt ?????!!!!!! Sorry

  • Anonymous
    August 28, 2008
    Hi James, Your explanation is almost there but is not quite complete.  How to I Browse to the Favorites folder in CMD? Thanks, Stuart

  • Anonymous
    January 13, 2009
    It says name is not optional but since I have no favorites I'll probably never find this site again to find the answer.

  • Anonymous
    April 21, 2009
    Thank you James. PS for the dutch command prompt  = opdrachtprompt (in map bureau assescoires)