Explorer Favorites Enable/Disable

In Windows Explorer..my "Favorites" List in the Left Pane seems to be deactivated.
The Icon is there...but I can't seem to add anything to it...

"add current location to favorites" and
"Restore Favorites Links" doesn't seem to do anything...not even an error..

I Opened the folder via "Open in New Window" and tried manually sliding links in but just got the red dashed circle.

After much thinking on what happened to cause this..
It's possible that while Transfering files to this notebook...I accidently
clicked an old .REG file disabling it...and I can't find the .REG file to reactivate it online
anymore...

Hope this is in the right category..thanks for reading.. :)

I followed both tutorials...the REG said it installed correctly and rebooted but there was no change. weird.

anyways...I made a new administrator account and moved my files into it ...then deleted the old one...and my favorites are back. Thanks for the link though :)