Messed up the favorites tab

[SquirrelTakos]

I'm really not sure what I did, but I completely removed the "downloads, etc" from my favorites(see attached pic). I thought the obvious solution was to just drop the folders I wanted pinned into favorites, but no such luck.

I just want downloads attached under favorites again for ease of use.

Thanks

 

[Brink]

Hello SquirrelTakos,

This tutorial from Vista should work for Windows 7 just as well to hopefully fix this for you.

Favorite Links Empty - Vista Forums

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[SquirrelTakos]

unfortunately, trying to restore them by right clicking does nothing for me. I tried the second option also and that file in the regedit was already there. If I try and add anything to favorites by right clicking and hitting "add current location to favorites" nothing happens. It acts completely dead.

I might just give up on this completely. It's not a huge deal, but it's rather annoying.

 

[Brink]

Ok. Double check to make sure that you have the default location set for the C:\Users\(user-name)\Links folder using OPTION TWO in the tutorial below.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18583-user-folders-restore-default-location.html

 

[derekimo]

Have you tried the restore defaults button to see if that does it?

 

[SquirrelTakos]

I'm pretty sure it's still in it's default location... [C:\Users\Dan\Favorites]

Tried the restore defaults, still nothing.

 

[Brink]

If you have one available, you can do a system restore using a restore point dated when this did work to fix it.

If not, then you can do a repair install without losing anything.