>Why not just drag the ones you want to where you want to see them?

Because I like them the way they are -- I just want a personalized favorites menu which was
available before I "upgraded" to IE8 and reverted to IE7.

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

No -- just that the article described how personalized favorites menu is supposed to work. I am
running XP Pro SP3 with all patches.

>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. ; )

It worked fine on this machine for years -- through upgrades of IE until IE8. I suspect it was
removed from IE8 so the rarely used pre-installed favorites would constantly show up on the menu.

"Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@techemail.com> wrote:

>
>"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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