Something Really Weird On IE Link Bar

[Harry]

Here is something really weird. I reformatted my C drive last weekend which cleans everything off of it and then reinstalled win98. And then yesterday I upgraded to IE5.5. When I moved the IE link bar in view which had not been visible since it was set off my screen to the right of the URL address bar, I noticed that some of the links I had put there about a month ago were still there. This is after installing a new drive and at least four reformats during the last month in between which I never did anything with the Link bar. And these were definitely my old links because I had given them specific names.

How in the world could IE have possibly come up with these old links? And I haven't even been to several of those links and one of them isn't even valid anymore so they didn't get put there automatically when visiting the Web site. That is really weird. The only thing I can think of is that I may have had that little 498K IE upgrade installer applet for the upgrade from the Web on my other drive as long as a month ago and it may have remembered something when I used it to upgrade again otherwise I'm going to start worrying that it might be ALIVE.

[Edited by Harry on 01-06-2001 at 11:57 AM]

[Harry]

OK, I figured it out. The Link bar is a part of the Favorites folder. I didn't know that. So when I transferred my old Favorites back, I got my old links back too.