If there comes a time when you get a new or different computer, you may want to be able to access your favorites from your old computer. But in order to do that you need to bring them from your old over to your new computer. To do this you need to export them from the old and import them into the new.
Follow these steps to export your Internet Explorer favorites to a file
Open Internet Explorer
Go to File then, Import and Export
Click on Next and then click on Export Favorites and click Next again
If you want to export all of your favorites make sure the Favorites folder is highlighted and click Next
Make sure Export to a File or Address is checked
Click on Browse to choose where you want to save the file
You can rename the default bookmark.htm if you want to put a more descriptive name
Click on Save, Next and then Finish and you are done!
To import you favorites into Internet Explorer do the following:
Open Internet Explorer
Go to File then, Import and Export
Click on Next and then click on Import Favorites and click Next again
Click on Browse to find you saved file, then click Save and then Next
Make sure the Favorites folder is highlighted and click Next
Finally click on Finish and you favorites will be imported!
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