# Frigging 'links' folder bookmark **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 18, 2001, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frigging-links-folder-bookmark/72911 "2001-07-18T11:29:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frigging-links-folder-bookmark/72911/1 "2001-07-18T11:29:26Z")
Under the ‘favorites’ menu is a folder called ‘Links’. For some reason, this completely nondescript title offends me. Useful titles like “Federal,” “Provincial,” “dailies,” and “relatives” all mean something, but ‘links’ is pretty damn pointless. So I delete the sucker. Poof, gone, sensibilities restored. Except the damn folder keeps restoring itself as well. Please tell me, oh SDMB gurus, how do I remove this Lazarus-like folder and make it stay dead? Much obliged ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frigging-links-folder-bookmark/72911/2 "2001-07-18T12:08:54Z")
I know it’s not quite an answer, but the links folder has one use: you can display its contents on the IE browser bar itself (by right-clicking on a blank bit of toolbar and checking ‘links’). I use it for shortcuts to my three or four most visited sites, so I just have a button for each. As to the question… > [@](#): > > Using Explorer find the location of your Favorites folder (e.g. C:\windows\Favorites) within that folder will be a sub-folder named Links. > > Select the Links folder and right-click (or secondary click) and click on Properties, check the Hidden checkbox and click OK. > > From now on the Links folder should be hidden from the Favorites list.