"Stewart Berman" <saberman@nospam.nospam> wrote in message news:lpjs459j2oh0e8cnqeividqenpc3fbokan@4ax.com...
>I "upgraded" to IE8 as part of installing recommended updates and discovered that it does not
> support Personalized Favorites. As my favorites menu is rather large and complex this pushed me to
> revert to IE7 which I did on June 20, 2009, and made sure the Enable personalized favorites menu
> option was checked.


Why not just drag the ones you want to where you want to see them?
Alternatively rename them so they are easier to navigate to.
Also, if you had activated the Windows Search assist in IE8
you might find that you could find important links in Favorites subdirectories
by typing unique enough prefixes (not necessarily just first word prefixes).


> Unfortunately, IE did not revert to actually personalizing the favorites menu.
>
> The knowledge base article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257128
> is titled: Enable Personalized Favorites Menu Feature Does Not Take Effect Immediately
> However it states:
> "If infrequently-used menu commands or shortcuts are still not demoted after you restart Internet
> Explorer, you may need to wait for as much as a week or more for the item to be demoted. "
>
> It is now two weeks and I still do not have a personalized favorites menu.
>
> Any suggestions on how to fix this would be appreciated.


Are we to infer from your choice of that article that your OS is W2K? ; }

Otherwise I think you can find that Vista users in particular have
complained about this symptom and have then found various workarounds
by dropping some of their Vista-specific security features.

In any case, I suspect that this is just a good demonstration of how
unreliable and quirky the Personalized Favorites was in the first place
and why it was removed from IE8. ; )


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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