[X] My Assistant

[Bill Harris]

Last weekend I changed my ISP from Earthlink to Bellsouth. I was apprehensive since Windows XT tends to keep a chokehold on everything Internet-related. But setting up the new ISP went flawlessly. Last night I decided to remove all the old Earthlink files (primarily a "shell" to coordinate Browser, Dialup and Services).

That is where I ran into the glitch. Deleting the Earthlink files caused Internet Explorer to "forget" the "Favorites" that were in the Earthlink directory and it now uses a new (empty) Favorites directory in c:\documents and settings\Bill Harris\favorites. I can't get IE to recognize my old favorites files, even copying them over to the new Favorites dorectory.

How do I get IE to recognize my old bookmarks?

This may be academic, I can always go through my old Favorites files and add them to the Browser's Favorites manually, but there are a lot of them. Academic, since I plan to change over to FireFox in a few days, but I'd like to get old browser in good shape so settings, etc will transfer over.

--Bill

[dvandorn]

For the issue with IE trying to dial out, go to your Internet Properties dialog box (I get there by right-clicking the desktkop IE icon and selecting Properties). Find the Connections tab, and click the radio button that says "Never dial a connection." That will let you start IE without it trying to dial out.

I'm assuming you have a separate dialer, if you're on dial-up, or that you have some form of broadband connection...

-the other Doug