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To: thecow who wrote (43399)	10/11/2004 9:09:57 AM
From: padoc	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110655

I am unable to back anything. It does not work. Things get more bazarre by the minute. After I hear from Microsoft I will do the fresh install. I see no way around it.

To: thecow who wrote (43399)	10/11/2004 9:18:30 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110655

KISS It To Yourself - a text file of Bookmarks We all have a ton of Bookmarks. So much so that its a cluttered mess for many, and hard to use. Even freeware programs to help organize Bookmarks are rarely used since they first require you to learn a confusing system. For me I need it to be a KISS (Keep It Simple & Safe) Simple - Be able to use my Win XP's Notepad to make it. Safe - Using Notepad means no off the wall special characters. This way all I need are the URLs and know a description of each so that I can move them into groups of similiar natures. The example below is Food and Sports. Incase someone missed this feature of a browser, one is able to OPEN a FILE with the .HTML extension and be able to take your mouse and click onto those blue colored text that work just like the blue colored text that appears on the web page that you now have displayed on SI. Just like we can click on our Favorites BobZ made for us and have our favorite threads and people displayed, we can open a file that has been programmed to offer the same ability to click on a blue colored link and our browser will open that web page. But programmed is what BobZ and grubmaster do and are. We want that KISS simple file using Notepad. We can have our HTML, and not eat it too. We can type into Notepad simple text and save it as .TXT and then simply make a copy of it into a file with .HTML extension. Nothing changes in the .TXT file, and you could simply rename it with the only change being the .TXT to .HTML extension. Then click into your browser's FILE menue and click OPEN, enter the file with the .HTML extension, and you are good to go. As in, go to any of your URLs. If anyone whom knows this stuff is willing to create a thread with enough interest showned by others to learn this stuff, then that would be nice to expand on the below. The templete is as follows: URL is the full pathname to a web site <br> is used to make a newline - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - <html> <body> Put text here you want displayed by the browser to describe the URL </body> <a href="URL"> Put text here that will show up as that blue colored hot link you can click with mouse </a> </html> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You can demo this by doing a copy of the following, and then a paste into a new file you give the .HTML extension to. When you open this file in your browser you will see the following. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I scream for ice cream Ben & Jerry's Häagen-Dazs Do them beans have enough hot air to blow the house down? baked bean town The House that Ruth Built - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - <html> <body> <br>I scream for ice cream<br> </body> <a href="http://www.benjerry.com">Ben & Jerry's</a> <br> <a href="http://www.haagen-dazs.com">Häagen-Dazs</a> <body> <br>Do them beans have enough hot air to blow the house down?<br> </body> <a href="http://boston.redsox.mlb.com">baked bean town</a> <br> <a href="http://www.yankees.com">The House that Ruth Built</a> </html> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This is as far as I need to go with this to organize my Bookmarks using one or more simple text files, but if anyone else wants to learn this HTML stuff further, then ask if someone knowing this stuff could create a learning thread to develope more ways to expand on what can be done. Doug