Hello Internet Explorer Favorites

For quite a while I have searched for a way to share my internet explorer favorites over more computers without having to put them on a USB-key or something. Here is the solution:

At http://www.getdropbox.com/ you can download a fancy little feature to your computer, which gives you 2 Gb storage on the internet for free. But unlike some of the other online storage companies this one lets you have it all offline so you can use the data even when you accidentially is offline.

So if you download and install the Dropbox program and create an account, you will have a folder for those files. In this folder you make a Favorites folder. Edit the registry. Choose start + run (Windows key + r) and type regedit. Browse to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" and edit the Favorites value to your new folder. Important: I don't know why, but for some reason it wouldn't work unless I used  %USERPROFILE%.

Now (after a restart of IE) your Internet Explorer points to another directory which is backed up via Dropbox. Do the same for all the computers you want to use your favorites from.

Voila.. The favorites are updated automatically .