Importing and Exporting Your Internet Explorer Favorites - Microsoft Windows Tips
Favorites are used by Internet Explorer to save your favorite or most commonly used websites in one place for easy access. Other browsers may call these favorite sites bookmarks instead. Just because your favorites are on one computer doesn't mean you can't have them on your other computers as well.
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
To export your favorites click on Export to a file and then click Next.
Check the boxes of the items you want to export. For most cases it will just be Favorites.
If you want to export all of your favorites make sure the Favorites folder is highlighted and click Next
Browse to the location where you want to save your bookmarks to. You will notice it uses the default name of bookmark.htm which is fine.
Then click on Export and then on Finish
To import you favorites into Internet Explorer do the following:
Open Internet Explorer
Go to File then, Import and Export
Select Import from a file and click Next
Select the items you want to import. Most of the time it will just be Favorites. Then click Next.
Browse to the location of where you have your bookmark.htm file from your other computer and click Next.
Click on Favorites and then on Import.
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