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Favorites (bookmarks) for Internet Explorer and other
Web browsers
Follow these steps to back up your Favorites for Internet
Explorer (ver 5.0 or newer):
1 In Internet Explorer, click File, Import and Export.
2 The Import/Export Wizard will appear. Click Next.
3 Click Export Favorites, Next. (To restore the Favorites
to the hard disk drive later you would select Import
Favorites from this list.)
4 A list of your Favorites folders will appear, with the top-
level Favorites folder selected (highlighted). Click Next
to back up all of your Favorites, or select a particular
Favorites folder to back up, then click Next.
5 In the Export Favorites Destination window, use the
Browse button to browse to the My Documents folder.
Click Save in the Select Bookmark file window, and then
click Next.
6 Click Finish. The message “Successfully exported
favorites” should appear.
7 Follow the steps above for backing up files from the My
Documents folder to a CD.
Each CD has room for 650-700 megabytes of data. Follow
this same set of steps any number of times to back up any
number of files to as many CDs as is required to hold them.
Windows XP also includes a Backup utility, though it does
not directly support writing to CDs. For more information,
click Start, Help and Support, or start the Backup utility by
clicking Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools,
Backup.