Greeting, researchers!

I have Windows XP Home, with Internet Explorer 6.  IE is insisting on
hiding all but the most recently used Favorites.  I cannot find the
setting to rectify this.  I want to see all Favorites.

Thank you.

Greetings, Nelson!...

This setting is either on or off. There is no way to set
the number of days that constitutes "recently used".

In IE, go to Tools -> Internet Options, go to the Advanced
tab, scroll down to the Browsing section, and uncheck 
'Enable Personalized Favorites Menu'. Close all browser
sessions (windows) and reopen IE. All your favorites 
will be visible.

Researching this was unnecessary, since I was annoyed
early on with this feature of IE6, and quickly found
how to eliminate it.


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sublime1-ga

Thank you, sublime1.  That was very helpful.  (Do they really think
people want this on be default?  And the option to turn the "feature"
off should be more clearly labelled, like in Excel.)

Nelson...

Thanks for the rating and the tip!

I'm sure they thought, "default is okay since they can always
turn it off", which made the programmer happy.

I think a better name for the option would be 'Hide unused favorites'.
Hopefully they'll correct this in a future update.

sublime1-ga

This tip was a life saver!  Our technical support area told me this
was happening because I was approaching 5MB of Favorites.  I knew this
was a bunch of bunk, but I just couldn't figure out where to find the
answer.

Thanks a million!