My boss contracted a couple of viruses and now his favorites list will not
show in IE. He is running XP Pro. The list of sites is in his favorites
folder, it just won't show up in IE. However, they do show up in Outlook.
Any ideas?

Perhaps the Registry entry is wrong?

You can change the value of Favorites in the Registry in these
two keys: (ignore the second if the value is not there)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders

For Windows 2000/XP:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders]
Set the Favorites path to : %USERPROFILE%\Favorites


The above should be a REG_EXPAND_SZ value, not REG_SZ


Ref: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFAQ.htm#favorites
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/usershellfolders.htm



....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows -Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.org/index.html

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:01:15 -0800, "Curious"
<Curious@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>My boss contracted a couple of viruses and now his favorites list will not
>show in IE. He is running XP Pro. The list of sites is in his favorites
>folder, it just won't show up in IE. However, they do show up in Outlook.
>Any ideas?