[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

[Bill Harris]

Never resolved the Bookmark/Favorites issue, so I saved all my original ones and made a fresh set for daily use. After I change over to Firefox, I'll go through and get the Bookmarks straightened out.

Tried chicken entrails, got indigestion.

On the wanting to establish a connection for offline content, evidently I had some Internet content saved somewhere and it was fretting about that. Cleaned it up and solved that problem.

I broke down and bought a reference book on XT, there are a lot of little details different that Win 3.1 and I was going batty trying to figure it out from the Windows Help files and trial and error.

Luddite, yes. Foolish, no...

--Bill