Questions tagged [favorites]
Questions about managing shortcuts to often used locations. Example: The list of favourites shown in windows explorer.
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Microsoft Outlook – Favorites shortcuts disappear on re-launch
When I add shortcuts from my mail accounts to the Favorites folder, they get deleted on Outlook re-launch.
I am using Microsoft Outlook 2013.
Since I have configured multiple mail accounts in ...
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How do you sort the list of favorites in Windows RT
On the Microsoft Surface RT, there are two instances of Internet Explorer.
The version that is started from the Desktop has the usual star icon for Favorites that brings up the list of Favorites in ...
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Mouseover text from favorites bar lingers?
For some reason, the mouseover text from one of my favorites in MS Edge is just staying on my screen, and I have no idea why.
It even stays on my desktop when I minimize edge.
Why is this happening?
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Windows 7 - make folders from favorites open in new window
By default if I click on a folder in "favorites" (left hand pane), they open in the same window, as normal folders. But for latter I can hold ctrl while double-clicking to open them in new ...
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Stop GNOME from randomizing window locations in its pop-out?
I'm working on Ubuntu 18.04, fully patched with dist-upgrade. I layout 4 terminals as shown below. The order of the favorite pop-out is top-to-bottom: (a) is (1) top left, (b) is (2) bottom left, (c) ...
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Windows 7 Navigation Bar — show only plain favourites?
Is there a method to force Windows 7 show only plain list of favourites every time a new Explorer window is open?
I love the way it was previously done in Vista (no tree, no root item):
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Recent favorites folders in Firefox shows only the last one in dropdown menu
The Favorites dropdown menu in Firefox only shows the last Folder/Location I used.
This is going on since Firefox crashed and I replaced the 'Profile' folder in the Firefox directory with an older ...
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Stop Windows from constantly creating the IE Favorites folder
Windows 10 21H1 and all other versions of Windows I've ever used insist on creating the Favorites folder, e.g. C:\Users\John\Favorites.
For the non-initiated the Favorites folder is created by the ...
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Win 7 Favorites -> Win 10 Quick Access, also changed Shortcuts -> Actual Folders?
Under Win 7, the Favorites list is a collection of shortcuts to folders.
As such, each of these shortcuts has its own name and target (one can see this by right clicking on one of these). They do not ...
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Import Favorite Bookmarks to Edge From Another Machine
The problem is when copying files containing bookmarks from a machine with W10 Pro & Edge 38.14393.0.0 to another machine (W10 Home) with the same version of Edge, the bookmarks do not appear.
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Why are favorites in Windows 7 Internet Explorer 8 the start menu All Programs links?
When I open my favorites in IE8 on Win7 64 bit, all the folders and programs from Start Menu -> All Programs are listed - why? And is there a way to fix this?
I don't really want or need to open up ...
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Transferring book marks from saved user folder
My staff is getting new machines, running Windows 10, that are replacing their old machines, which ran Windows 7. I have copied their old user files onto the new machines. These old files include ...
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Adding a folder in Windows 10 Explorer to the Quick-access/favorites to access it with only one click
Currently when I'm adding a folder to the favorites I have to click twice for accessing the folder.
Click on "Favorites" in the tree pane and then on the folder in the main pain to open it.
The ...
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Windows 7 Explorer clearing history
So i have alot(more than on screenshot) of "Favorites" in pop up menu of explorer (right click on explorer icon on taskbar) Screenshot
Also i am using "Most visited" (i think on english it is)
But ...
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Unable to save bookmarks in Edge
I was having trouble importing my favorites, when a friend of mine found a thread here on superuser and somehow managed to make it so I cannot add or import bookmarks at all; when I try to, it simply ...