Today I wanted to move my Internet Explorer favorites to My Dropbox folder. Dropbox is a very handy and free tool to synchronize files across several computers using the internet. All files are also stored by Dropbox so there is always a backup (see www.dropbox.com). Saving my favorites to the Dropbox folder ensures that I have always my bookmarks available on all computers. After a quick search on Google I found a registry key that should be changed and that should do the trick. But it didn’t… I’m using Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 and probably this is the reason why it didn’t work. Also regedit warned me not to edit the entries manually, see screenshot:
So I decided to use the regedit preferred method but instead of SHGetKnownFolderPath I used the Set variant. Using Visual Studio I created the following c++ program. (sorry for the image, my code snipped plugin doesn’t work with the current wordpress theme)
This is a console application with one parameter which specified the new path. And this worked!
The compiled executable can be downloaded here: ChangeFavorites. It’s a zip file, so rename to .zip and extract!
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