{"id":18883,"date":"2009-03-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/03\/10\/why-dont-the-favorites-i-copy-into-the-common-favorites-directory-show-up-in-the-favorites-menu-of-all-users\/"},"modified":"2009-03-10T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T10:00:00","slug":"why-dont-the-favorites-i-copy-into-the-common-favorites-directory-show-up-in-the-favorites-menu-of-all-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090310-00\/?p=18883","title":{"rendered":"Why don’t the favorites I copy into the common Favorites directory show up in the Favorites menu of all users?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Favorites menu in Internet Explorer shows the user’s favorites. And stuff in the %ALLUSERSPROFILE%<\/code> is visible to all users. Therefore, Internet shortcuts placed into the %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\\Favorites<\/code> directory should show up on the Favorites menu of all users, right? So why doesn’t it work?<\/p>\n

Because features don’t exist by default<\/a>. <\/p>\n

It’s true that there are a few highly-visible cases where the items shown to the user are a combination of files from the %USERPROFILE%<\/code> and the %ALLUSERSPROFILE%<\/code>, the most commonly encountered ones being the desktop and the Start menu. But that doesn’t happy as a result of magic. Somebody had to sit down and hook them up. <\/p>\n

Even the highly visible cases show that the behavior is implemented on a case-by-case basis. For example, the Music<\/i> folder does not show the items in the all-users version of the Music<\/i> directory; there is just a shortcut that takes you there. Similarly, items in the all-users Documents<\/i> folder do not show up in every user’s Documents<\/i> folder; instead there is a separate Shared Documents<\/i> folder. <\/p>\n

Each of those cases had to be hooked up separately, and most of them are not hooked up at all. <\/p>\n

Now, the common Favorites folder may be a tempting target, seeing as the shell team even defined a CSIDL<\/code> value for it, but it’s just another example of something that never got hooked up but whose vestiges didn’t get completely cleaned up either<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Favorites menu in Internet Explorer shows the user’s favorites. And stuff in the %ALLUSERSPROFILE% is visible to all users. Therefore, Internet shortcuts placed into the %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\\Favorites directory should show up on the Favorites menu of all users, right? So why doesn’t it work? Because features don’t exist by default. It’s true that there are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-18883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

The Favorites menu in Internet Explorer shows the user’s favorites. And stuff in the %ALLUSERSPROFILE% is visible to all users. Therefore, Internet shortcuts placed into the %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\\Favorites directory should show up on the Favorites menu of all users, right? So why doesn’t it work? Because features don’t exist by default. It’s true that there are […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}