Favorites are just shortcuts in normal Windows folders. Mine are in c:\windows\favorites (which is more or less amazing, because I expected them somewhere in c:\windows\profiles (it's Windows 95 and IE5.5, but I don't think the principle in XP is different).
Start with making all these shortcuts read-only (select them all in Explorer, right click and check read-only). That should keep them on the disk, whatever happens. That's simple to try.
Then make a copy of the folder, and set them deletable again in the original to find out what is causing the delete. Do a clean boot as described in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353/ or go to the Startup tab of MSCONFIG to find out (by unchecking and rechecking what program does it. Then see if you can explain things.
Good searching!
Kees
Hi,
I'm running XP Pro SP2 installed, IE6 6.0.2900 all fixes applied, McAfee Security Center. I run Spy Bot S&D, adaware & spysweeper. Suddenly my IE6 Favorites list disappears after a reboot(all favorites gone from list), any idea what could cause this or what to try to resolve this?
Thanks,
Steve

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