# IE experts: "Favorites" hiding unused links? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 30, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-experts-favorites-hiding-unused-links/172230 "2003-04-30T22:01:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Doc\_Nickel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@Doc\_Nickel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doc_Nickel)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-experts-favorites-hiding-unused-links/172230/1 "2003-04-30T22:01:50Z")
Recently whgen I’ve been using Internet Exploder, the “Favorites” drop-down menu has been hiding some of the links. The little popup message says it’s because I haven’t visited them recently, but that’s not right- most I checked just last night. Is there some way to simply disable the “auto hide” feature, or whatever it’s called? I looked through both the Help and Tools sections to no avail. Is there a trick here? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-experts-favorites-hiding-unused-links/172230/2 "2003-04-30T22:13:16Z")
This is a new one on me. What version of IE are you using, and under which OS? I’ve got links in my Favorites that I haven’t visited since I bookmarked them, and they still don’t get hidden. ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-experts-favorites-hiding-unused-links/172230/3 "2003-04-30T22:49:11Z")
Try Tools/Internet Options/Advanced/Enable Personalized Favourites Menu (tick this off)