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I have old website shortcuts from Chrome that I want to open in IE. How can I do this? Oreally |
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On 25/08/2017 20:49, OREALLY wrote:
I have old website shortcuts from Chrome that I want to open in IE. How can I do this? Oreally This is very difficult. You'll need to hire somebody to help you by sitting next to you. This is not something you can do on your own especially you are pretty much new to computers and internet. where did you steal the machine from? -- With over 500 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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OREALLY wrote:
I have old website shortcuts from Chrome that I want to open in IE. How can I do this? Chrome - hamburger/3dot icon/ Bookmarks/ Bookmark manager/ Organize/ Export bookmarks to html file IE/ if you have a Menu bar, use File/ Import from a file - import that html file If your IE doesn't have a menu bar, R click the area where it would be and check the menu bar. -- Mike Easter |
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On 8/25/2017 12:49 PM, OREALLY wrote:
I have old website shortcuts from Chrome that I want to open in IE. How can I do this? Oreally The other answers in this thread seem to be referring to bookmarks (also known as "favorites") and not to URL shortcuts. A URL shortcut is a file with the extension .URL. It is usually created by dragging from your browser's address area (URI field) or from a tab and dropping either onto your desktop or into a folder. The following applies without regard to what brand of browser created the URL shortcut. The format for URL shortcuts has not changed since the days of Windows 95 or earlier. Thus, an old URL shortcut should work the same as a new one. If you double-click on a URL shortcut while IE is already running, it should open a new window in IE with the Web page for the shortcut. If you drag a URL shortcut and drop it into the window of IE, it will cause IE to display the shortcut's Web page. If you double-click on a URL shortcut while no browser is currently running, your default browser should launch with the display of the shortcut's Web page. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Yes, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other "founding fathers" owned slaves. However, they created a nation. Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and other "heroes" of the Confederacy tried to tear the nation apart. Statues and other monuments to those "heroes" of the Confederacy actually celebrate traitors and treason. See my http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_conf_flag.html. |
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David E. Ross wrote:
A URL shortcut is a file with the extension .URL. It is usually created by dragging from your browser's address area (URI field) or from a tab and dropping either onto your desktop or into a folder. Chrome has a function in its gear/ more tools/ add to desktop (which I had never noticed) which puts a URL shortcut on the desktop. -- Mike Easter |
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I have old website shortcuts from Chrome that I want to open in IE. How can I do this? Oreally What do the Properties say ? Is the URL in the shortcut visible when you do properties on the icon ? It all depends on how a browser stores those. The old-fashioned way was to use separate files for each shortcut (and a desktop.ini file with a shell32 call, would present the contents in a particular way in File Explorer). The new way is to use a database file, a single file holds all the shortcuts. Then, the software can "display" the database content, any way it feels like. You can drop a database into a hex editor and read the contents that way. https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/ Some database types, there is a separate tool which will do a ".dump" operation. This generates a text file in CSV format. ******* Now, if you're referring to bookmarks, Chrome supports an Export function. Try opening the output in Notepad or another text editor, once the Export is complete. Have a look at what info is included. as an HTML file, you could load the file in IE and click on stuff, but only if the file was prepared and formatted for that purpose. http://ccm.net/faq/31791-how-to-back...rome-bookmarks (Same info, bottom of page...) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/96816?hl=en Paul |
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Here's the issue: If you have desktop Website shortcuts created in Chrome
they will open in Chrome, of course. But if you (for any reason) uninstall Chrome, those shortcuts will no longer open in IE, or Chrome...even if you reinstall Chrome!. Copying the URL from the "Target" window from properties will not open the site in either Chrome or IE! This can be a problem if you have many Website shortcuts that you previously created in Chrome. I hope that clears up the issue. Maybe I missed the solution? "Paul" wrote in message news OREALLY wrote: I have old website shortcuts from Chrome that I want to open in IE. How can I do this? Oreally What do the Properties say ? Is the URL in the shortcut visible when you do properties on the icon ? It all depends on how a browser stores those. The old-fashioned way was to use separate files for each shortcut (and a desktop.ini file with a shell32 call, would present the contents in a particular way in File Explorer). The new way is to use a database file, a single file holds all the shortcuts. Then, the software can "display" the database content, any way it feels like. You can drop a database into a hex editor and read the contents that way. https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/ Some database types, there is a separate tool which will do a ".dump" operation. This generates a text file in CSV format. ******* Now, if you're referring to bookmarks, Chrome supports an Export function. Try opening the output in Notepad or another text editor, once the Export is complete. Have a look at what info is included. as an HTML file, you could load the file in IE and click on stuff, but only if the file was prepared and formatted for that purpose. http://ccm.net/faq/31791-how-to-back...rome-bookmarks (Same info, bottom of page...) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/96816?hl=en Paul |
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OREALLY wrote:
Here's the issue: If you have desktop Website shortcuts created in Chrome they will open in Chrome, of course. But if you (for any reason) uninstall Chrome, those shortcuts will no longer open in IE, or Chrome...even if you reinstall Chrome!. Copying the URL from the "Target" window from properties will not open the site in either Chrome or IE! This can be a problem if you have many Website shortcuts that you previously created in Chrome. I hope that clears up the issue. Maybe I missed the solution? My problem is, I don't have a Chrome handy. I have one set up here somewhere, but the test machine is "busy" right now doing Windows Insider updates on Win10 and it's been faffing about all day. I have to clear that muck off the machine first, before I can do anything :-) Maybe I'll get a chance to make my own shortcuts and see. Paul |
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On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 20:34:10 -0700, OREALLY wrote:
Here's the issue: If you have desktop Website shortcuts created in Chrome they will open in Chrome, of course. But if you (for any reason) uninstall Chrome, those shortcuts will no longer open in IE, or Chrome...even if you reinstall Chrome!. Copying the URL from the "Target" window from properties will not open the site in either Chrome or IE! This can be a problem if you have many Website shortcuts that you previously created in Chrome. I hope that clears up the issue. Maybe I missed the solution? If you've uninstalled Chrome and its user profile data has been deleted, the URL might already been lost. This is because Chrome's desktop shortcut for a bookmark is converted into a bookmark app as a web browser extension. Chrome's extension data is stored in a file called "Secure Preferences" in the user profile folder. Chrome's desktop shortcut points to a Chrome app's ID. That "Secure Preferences" file must be recovered first, before you can salvage an URL from a bookmark app. |
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On 8/25/2017 8:34 PM, OREALLY wrote [in part]:
It all depends on how a browser stores those. The old-fashioned way was to use separate files for each shortcut (and a desktop.ini file with a shell32 call, would present the contents in a particular way in File Explorer). The new way is to use a database file, a single file holds all the shortcuts. Then, the software can "display" the database content, any way it feels like. Windows 7 SeaMonkey 2.48 I have the latest version of SeaMonkey, based on Firefox 51.0. It still creates a separate file for each URL shortcut. I can drag the shortcut into an IE window, and IE then displays the Web page for that shortcut. If I use Wordpad to open a shortcut file, I see its URI. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Yes, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other "founding fathers" owned slaves. However, they created a nation. Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and other "heroes" of the Confederacy tried to tear the nation apart. Statues and other monuments to those "heroes" of the Confederacy actually celebrate traitors and treason. See my http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_conf_flag.html. |
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Mike Easter wrote:
David E. Ross wrote: A URL shortcut is a file with the extension .URL. It is usually created by dragging from your browser's address area (URI field) or from a tab and dropping either onto your desktop or into a folder. Chrome has a function in its gear/ more tools/ add to desktop (which I had never noticed) which puts a URL shortcut on the desktop. Actually it is a .lnk that calls for chrome to open and run a specific 'app-id' from its default profile. So, that link wouldn't be useful if one's browser weren't Chrome with its profile wherever that is. -- Mike Easter |
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