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Title: Help please!
Post by: Newportnobby on February 29, 2012, 09:11:25 PM
My laptop decided to do some Windows updates when I closed it down earlier.
Now all my favourites have disappeared on start up.
Is there anything I can do to recover them please?
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( :thumbsdown:
Title: Re: Help please!
Post by: OwL on February 29, 2012, 09:14:09 PM
phone me mate, ill PM my number, it happened to me and i sussed it out
Title: Re: Help please!
Post by: scotsoft on February 29, 2012, 09:17:22 PM
Are you runing Win 7?

My machine did some updates yesterday and I did not have any problems.

There is no reason why an update should delete your favourites.

Have you tried rebooting again to check it wasn't a glitch? - I know the answer is going to be yes.

If they have gone then you will need to restore to an earlier setup - do you know about that function?
Title: Re: Help please!
Post by: Newportnobby on February 29, 2012, 09:38:37 PM
Thanks Owl and Scotsoft,

Owl gave me a call and they are not lost but were hidden from view.
I have found them again - phew.

Thanks Guys :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Help please!
Post by: OwL on February 29, 2012, 09:40:10 PM
Quote from: newportnobby on February 29, 2012, 09:38:37 PM
Thanks Owl and Scotsoft,

Owl gave me a call and they are not lost but were hidden from view.
I have found them again - phew.

Thanks Guys :thumbsup:

Your very welcome :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Help please!
Post by: scotsoft on February 29, 2012, 09:47:10 PM
I am so happy you have them back.

Now would be a good time to back them up to a data disk  ;)  :thumbsup:  :computersmile:
Title: Re: Help please!
Post by: longbridge on March 24, 2012, 06:18:33 AM
Like you Nobby I find my Favorites very important, I copy a list of the web address's in Favorites to a folder which I keep in Documents.

Because I update my Linux OS about twice a year all I have to do is highlight the address list and paste them back into my browser, I do updates to the list as I add interesting websites.