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[waspy]

I'd like tp back up my favourites to a disc, but not sure how. I've a lot of useful sites stored & if owt happens i'd like to have them still.
Any helps please  

[Albatross]

I'd like tp back up my favourites to a disc, but not sure how. I've a lot of useful sites stored & if owt happens i'd like to have them still.
Any helps please  

Right click on your start button.

Select "Explore"

(If the left hand panel is not showing all the folders then click the "folders" button on the menu bar.)

In the left hand panel few folders up from the one you're currently in is a folder demarked with a star and called "Favorites".

Right click on it and select "Copy".

Go to wherever you want to save it.

Right click and select "Paste".

They are just files and folders like normal ones.

[waspy]

Thank you bod  

[Mr Skrunts]

A suggestion If I may be so bold.

Do the same as Albatros has sugested and make a backup.

Then nearly the same process, but "Right and CUT" "My Favourites" from that location.

Then go into "My Documents" and "Right Click and PASTE"

This then allows you to do a backup of any work you have created with the likes of Office, your Pictures, music, videos, downloads and of course My Favourites  all get backed up at the same time.

You know, like we all do, as the experts say "MAKE REGAULAR BACKUPS"   (Yeah, Right, thats why I often lose a mega ammount of stuff if a hard drive fails or something similar.

[Mr Skrunts]

Just thinking, over the years I have been backing up the sites I have liked and had them stored here and there.

A while back I spent a whole day sorting and catagorising them,

When I backed them up to CDR it nearly filled all 700MB of it.

Some intersting stuff been stored there over the years.

[Albatross]

A suggestion If I may be so bold.

Do the same as Albatros has sugested and make a backup.

Then nearly the same process, but "Right and CUT" "My Favourites" from that location.

Then go into "My Documents" and "Right Click and PASTE"

This then allows you to do a backup of any work you have created with the likes of Office, your Pictures, music, videos, downloads and of course My Favourites  all get backed up at the same time.

You know, like we all do, as the experts say "MAKE REGAULAR BACKUPS"   (Yeah, Right, thats why I often lose a mega ammount of stuff if a hard drive fails or something similar.

Uf you "CUT" (remove) your favorites from their correct location, won't that break them?

 :-/

[Mr Skrunts]

Not at all, Even if you copy some from annother backup they all get stored together.

The only thing to consider is when there are multiple users, each user has there own settings and therefore thier own Favoutites.

There is also a folder for ALL users, but on a fresh install I move the Favoutites from both sections into My Documents, and then I move My Documents from the Windows drive onto annother partition for safety, generally if a computer gets corrupted its the windows system files that generally suffer, so isolating the My documents on annother partition saves them after a reinstall.

Then repeating all of the above just overwrites the stored My Documents and you carry on where you left off after a reinstall (as long as the partition with the documents folder isnt delteted or formated)

[TheBoy]

Or the official way....   ....File > Import/Export then select export favourites.

[Mr Skrunts]

Never tried it.

Cut/Paste every time for me.

That sounds like the way outlook express is supposed to work, but I have lost every single backup I ever tried with that, thats why all my emails are stored online (Hotmail/Yahoo etc)

There are just some area's of Microsoft programs I just cant get the hang of.

There are so many ways of doing some operations in Windows, but the emails is one I just gave up on. lol.

[TheBoy]

Never tried it.

Cut/Paste every time for me.

That sounds like the way outlook express is supposed to work, but I have lost every single backup I ever tried with that, thats why all my emails are stored online (Hotmail/Yahoo etc)

There are just some area's of Microsoft programs I just cant get the hang of.

There are so many ways of doing some operations in Windows, but the emails is one I just gave up on. lol.

Never had an issue with OE backups either - for contacts, use csv format and tick either box.  For mail, import/export the mailstore.