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Search Internet Explorer Favorites in Vista with a Shortcut
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 10:05 PM on July 17, 2008
If you've stored a good number of bookmarks (or, in Windows terms, "Favorites") in Internet Explorer and need quick access to them, the How-To Geek has you covered, at least in Windows Vista. By creating a simple saved search and creating a shortcut to it (so you or a launcher like Launchy can get at it), you'll have quick, search-able access to all your bookmarks. Anybody know a similarly simple method to searching favourites in Windows XP? Let's hear it in the comments.
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Open24Hours
Posted 11:01 PM 17/7/08
What's this Internet Explorer you speak of? ;)
Open24Hours
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Posted 12:28 AM 18/7/08
in answer to Mr. Purdy's question:
yes, install Windows Search 4.0 & add your Favorites folder to it for indexing. Instant Search with word-wheeling from your taskbar. Tada!
or like me, you can dump your favorites in IE/Favorites Folder in a flat-structure (no folder hierarchy). Then enable Autocomplete in IE, and you're good to go (the address-bar works similar to "awesomebar", with some limitations).
I just wish I could mount my delicious bookmarks as a folder in Windows, so that I could search directly (with tags) in any program
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Joel
Posted 11:37 PM 17/7/08
Why not use the awesome bar? Oh, wait....
Joel
Open24Hours
Posted 11:25 PM 17/7/08
@jsmorley: Ha!
Open24Hours
jsmorley
Posted 11:21 PM 17/7/08
@Open24Hours:
I think it's something that comes with Windows to enable you to get to the web long enough to download Firefox when you first install the OS. ;-)
jsmorley
0zSpitt
Posted 1:08 AM 18/7/08
on vista if i go to start>user name> i have a favorites file already there. firefox favorites can be dragged in also. i keep my user folder on the desktop. i can access everything from it
0zSpitt
bracho86
Posted 2:24 AM 18/7/08
I doubt that there's even 1 reader of lifehacker who uses internet explorer! chances are that people who read lifehacker are using any other web browser!
bracho86
AirRaven
Posted 3:12 AM 18/7/08
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IE7Pro's ace- I'll give you t@_||_: much
If it wasn't for the whole "slowing the browser startup time to a crawl" thing, it'd be the ultimate addon. =\
AirRaven
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Posted 2:58 AM 18/7/08
@bracho86: well then, I must be that 1 reader!
I use both IE7 & FF3 regularly. I only use IE because of the awesomeness that is IE7Pro & I have Better GCal & Adblock Plus for FF
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Joel
Posted 9:03 AM 18/7/08
@bracho86: Looking at the Lifehacker browser statistics, 14.8% of readers are using IE7.x, with around 60% using Firefox 1 or 2 (not sure how often this is updated as FF3 doesn't show up?) so I guess the odd IE post is acceptable ;)
Joel
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Posted 3:33 AM 19/7/08
on a "cold start", IE7 launches instantly with IE7Pro, but then freezes for two to three seconds.
on a "cold start", FF3 launches in two to three seconds, and is instantly works after that.
Thusly, both IE7+IE7Pro and FF3 are comparably fast-launching. (Javascript in IE is a whole other story...)
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