What used to be a less than recommended hack in Windows XP has evolved
to become a standard option in Windows Vista. This tweak is available
as a supported feature exclusively in
Windows Vista and involves redirecting your favorites to an alternate location on your
hard drive.
Now we have all come across issues with storing information on the boot
drive. Personally, I keep nothing else on C: except for Windows.
I never use the default location for photos, documents, pictures, and
other personal documents. However, while storing those files on other
drives is a streamline operation, the Internet Explorer Favorites are a
whole different matter altogether. And as I have said, in Windows XP
you had to implement a crack in order to perform a folder redirection
for your favorites. Well, luckily, on Windows Vista this is no longer
an issue.
Via Windows Explorer create a new Favorites folder on a different drive
than the one Windows Vista is installed on. At this point it is also
safe to right click the new folder, choose properties, select the
Security tag and then under Permissions for Authenticated Users check
Allow.
Now navigate to your original Favorites folder, again right click, and
select location. In the Location tab you will be able to see something
in the line of C:UsersnameFavorites, where “name” is actually the
username. Simply replace this address with the one that you have just
created in the alternate location.
