# How do I save Favorite Places and addresses? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 9, 1999, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-save-favorite-places-and-addresses/9166 "1999-10-09T12:08:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 1999, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-save-favorite-places-and-addresses/9166/1 "1999-10-09T12:08:00Z")
I am technically impaired ( and craft impaired and cooking impaired, but I digress.) We are going to give AOL the boot this month and I want to save the aboved mentioned to a disk so I don’t have to write it down for our new ISP, Netzero. How do I do this? BTW, whomever recommended Netzero on here, thank you very much! We are now going to be rolling in the dough here by $21.95 extra a month. * * * Everyone wants to save the world, but no one wants to help Mom with the dishes.-P.J. O’Rourke ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 1999, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-save-favorite-places-and-addresses/9166/2 "1999-10-09T14:04:00Z")
Shirley, I haven’t used AOL in a while (it was probobly me who recommended netzero), but I was wondering how you’re enjoying netzero? I love it, but others complain about the ad. I’ve been using it for a few months now and I hardly notice it at all anymore. I’m interested in your take. For those not familiar, netzero is a totally free ISP- [http://www.netzero.com](http://www.netzero.com) download it and try it- it can’t hurt. They don’t even ask for that much info. * * * Some mornings it just doesn’t seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. [http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/zettecity/index.html](http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/zettecity/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 1999, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-save-favorite-places-and-addresses/9166/3 "1999-10-09T21:56:00Z")
Boy, if anyone has a good _quick_ way to do this, I’d love to hear it. Here is the slow, cumbersome way that I did it once. (These instructions are for PCs running Internet Explorer, not Macs. PCs running Netscape Navigator take the same steps, but I don’t remember the names of the folders where Netscape stashes their Bookmarks.) From AOL, open up your **Favorites** folder. Click on the first site you want copied. Click **Modify**. Highlight the URL, then press **Ctrl + C**. Now, minimize AOL (not the favorites window, but the AOL screen, itself). Click Open **My Computer** Click Open the **Windows** folder @@@@@ Click **File** Click **New** Click the type **Shortcut**. When the next window pops up, put the cursor in the **Command Line** text area and press **Ctrl + V**. Click **Next** (Now comes the big decision: If you can type the “name” you want for the site faster than you can execute the following directions, then just type the name in the **Select a name for the Shortcut** text area. If you type as slowly as I do then 🙂 Click on the AOL-minimized button at the bottom of your screen. Highlight the “name” in the AOL “Modify” window and press **Ctrl + C** Minimize all of AOL, again Put the cursor in the “Name” text field and press **Ctrl + V** Click on the AOL button (maximizing AOL), and click on the next favorite you want to copy, got to the @@@@@ above, rinse, lather, repeat. (You do not need to minimize the Favorites window while you do this, minimizing/maximizing AOL should be the only screen you need to play with.) If you have organized your favorites in AOL into separate folders, you can add a step, above, to open a folder within the Favorites folder, then open _that_ folder to place your favorites in. * * * Tom~ ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 1999, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-save-favorite-places-and-addresses/9166/4 "1999-10-09T21:59:00Z")
Aaaaarrrgghhh! After the following line: > [@](#): > > Put the cursor in the “Name” text field and press **Ctrl + V** insert the final instruction: Click **Finish** ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 1999, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-save-favorite-places-and-addresses/9166/5 "1999-10-11T05:04:00Z")
C’mon folks! Someone has to have a better way to do this than I did.