Importing and Exporting Your Internet Explorer Favorites

If there comes a time when you get a new or different computer, you may want to be able to access your favorites from your old computer. But in order to do that you need to bring them from your old over to your new computer. To do this you need to export them from the old and import them into the new.

Follow these steps to export your Internet Explorer favorites to a file

Open Internet Explorer

Go to File then, Import and Export

Click on Next and then click on Export Favorites and click Next again

If you want to export all of your favorites make sure the Favorites folder is highlighted and click Next

Make sure Export to a File or Address is checked

Click on Browse to choose where you want to save the file

You can rename the default bookmark.htm if you want to put a more descriptive name

Click on Save, Next and then Finish and you are done!

To import you favorites into Internet Explorer do the following:

Open Internet Explorer

Go to File then, Import and Export

Click on Next and then click on Import Favorites and click Next again

Click on Browse to find you saved file, then click Save and then Next

Make sure the Favorites folder is highlighted and click Next

Finally click on Finish and you favorites will be imported!