How do I install my IE Favorites as part of my unattended install, so it comes up when the user click on the "Favorites" Button?

If this has been answered please direct me to it!

John

winnt.sif

[FavoritesEx]
    Title1="Google.url"
    URL1="http://www.google.ca"
    Title2="Yahoo!.url"
    URL2="http://ca.yahoo.ca"

in 'WINNT.SIF'

[FavoritesEx]
    Title1="Hu-Testers.url"
    URL1="http://www.hu-testers.com/phpbb/"
    Title2="Hu-Testers Member Script Download Page.url"
    URL2="http://www.hu-testers.com/amember/member.php"
    Title3="Ella Computers.url"
    URL3="http://www.ellacomputers.com"
    Title4="Factory Direct.url"
    URL4="http://www.factorydirect.ca"
    Title5="Google.url"
    URL5="http://www.google.ca/"
    Title6="ICQ.url"
    URL6="http://www.icq.com"
    Title7="411.ca.url"
    URL7="http://411.ca/"
    Title8="Canada411 Phone Directory  service .url"
    URL8="http://canada411.com/"
    Title9="Canada.com.url"
    URL9="http://canada.com/"
    Title10="Toronto.com.url"
    URL10="http://www.toronto.com/"
    Title11="Government of Canada.url"
    URL11="http://www.gc.ca/"
    Title12="Yahoo! Canada.url"
    URL12="http://ca.yahoo.com/"
    Title13="Toronto Sun.url"
    URL13="http://www.canoe.com"
    Title14="Toronto Star.url"
    URL14="http://thestar.com"
    Title15="<<spam>>.url"
    URL15="http://www.<<spam>>.net"
    Title16="MSFN.url"
    URL16="http://msfn.org"
    Title17="G-Mail.url"
    URL17="https://gmail.google.com"
    Title18="Price Network Canada.url"
    URL18="http://www.pricenetwork.ca/"
    Title19="RED-FLAG-DEALS.url"
    URL19="http://www.redflagdeals.com"
    Title20="Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP.url"
    URL20="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx"
    Title21="Canada Kicks a**.url"
    URL21="http://www.canadaka.net/"
    Title22="mIRC - IRCSPY.url"
    URL22="http://ircspy.com"
    Title23="mIRC - PacketNews.url"
    URL23="http://packetnews.com/"
    Title24="My Compaq Yahoo!.url"
    URL24="http://compaq.my.yahoo.com/"
    Title25="My Compaq Netscape.url"
    URL25="http://compaq.netscape.com/compaq.adp"
    Title26="My Presario Club.url"
    URL26="http://www.hp.com/united-states/cpc/presario/index.html"
    Title27="Compaq Presario R3200 Notebook PC- Software & Driver downloads.url"
    URL27="http://www.hp.com/united-states/cpc/presario/index.html"

Edited August 26, 200619 yr by dl0711

@dl0711

Please use the

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sorry about that.

Thats nice ...

And how about if I want to put it under "Links", and maybe in a folder under "Links". This is cause I normally create a folder and group the Favourites under Links as "Music", "News", "Banks" and so on...

Cheers

It´s much easier to compress your favorites into an .exe file with winrar and run it from main_batch.cmd lite this;

start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Favoriter\Favoriter.exe

At least, that is what I do, and it works for me.

An alternative program that works very well for favorites, mailaccounts and mailfolders is Outlook Express Backup Genie - tried it and I like it.

/ SwedenXP

If yer using RunOnceEx.cmd, you can throw this line in the cleanup.cmd file.

xcopy "C:\install\favorites\*.*" "C:\Documents and Settings\Steve\Favorites\*.*" /E /C /Q /Y

As long as its before these 2 lines...

RD /S /Q %systemdrive%\drivers\

RD /S /Q %systemdrive%\install\

This presumes i have an account named "steve" created.

(cmdlines.txt file below)

[COMMANDS]

"useraccounts.cmd"

"RunOnceEx.cmd"

(useraccounts.cmd file below)

net user steve abcdefg /add

net localgroup Administrators steve /add

net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited

REGEDIT /S autologon.reg

EXIT

and I've copied my Favorites folder to the "install" folder;

C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\Install\Favorites

Does that make sense?

(sheesh, just found you guys/girls Monday. 14 Virtual pc installs later... )

Is it possible to use the saved exported favorites bookmark file in UA.

@Lotsagigabytes

can it be changed to?:

xcopy "C:\install\favorites\*.*" "C:\Documents and Settings\Allusers\Favorites\*.*" /E /C /Q /Y

of the Administrators group?

Always the old batch file method too:

@echo off

COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites" "%UserProfile%\Favorites"

CD %UserProfile%\Favorites

DEL /Q "Links"

MKDIR "Downloads"
MKDIR "Games"
MKDIR "Image Hosting"
MKDIR "IRC"
MKDIR "Music"
MKDIR "My Web Site"
MKDIR "News"
MKDIR "School"
MKDIR "Search"
MKDIR "Urban Terror"
MKDIR "Windows Problems"
MKDIR "WinXP - Tech News"
MKDIR "WinXP Forums"

COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\Downloads" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\Downloads"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\Games" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\Games"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\Image Hosting" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\Image Hosting"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\IRC" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\IRC"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\Music" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\Music"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\My Web Site" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\My Web Site"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\News" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\News"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\School" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\School"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\Search" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\Search"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\Urban Terror" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\Urban Terror"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\Windows Problems" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\Windows Problems"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\WinXP - Tech News" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\WinXP - Tech News"
COPY "%systemdrive%\install\Favorites\WinXP Forums" "%UserProfile%\Favorites\WinXP Forums"

EXIT