# Moving booksmarks to Windows 7

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-booksmarks-to-windows-7/564395>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 16, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-booksmarks-to-windows-7/564395 "2010-12-16T18:38:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-booksmarks-to-windows-7/564395/1 "2010-12-16T18:38:49Z")

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I have a backup disk of my old computer that used Windows XP and IE 8. I can’t figure out how to get to the bookmarks I saved there in order to transfer them to my new computer.

In what folder are they stored?

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**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-booksmarks-to-windows-7/564395/2 "2010-12-16T18:42:55Z")

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C:\Documents and Settings[USERNAME]\Favorites

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-booksmarks-to-windows-7/564395/3 "2010-12-16T20:01:35Z")

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There is no Favorites folder there. I’ve checked through the entire backup for Favorites and didn’t find them.

I guess I have to assume that it didn’t get copied for some reason.

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**Author:** ![sevenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sevenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sevenwood)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-booksmarks-to-windows-7/564395/4 "2010-12-16T21:41:57Z")

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> [@Shagnasty](#):
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> C:\Documents and Settings[USERNAME]\Favorites

I’m just jumping in to agree with Shagnasty - that’s where I found the Favorites items on a couple of Windows XP machines that I just checked.

I’ll note that the machines I checked all started with (I believe) IE6, were then upgraded to IE7, and then upgraded to IE8. I suppose it’s possible that starting out with IE8 would yield different results.