Vista - Can't Save Favorites in IE

Okay, I'm using Vista Ultimate, logged in with an Admin account, yet when I
go to save a Favorite in IE I get:

Unable to create 'Website': Unspecified error

If I try to create a folder in Favorites, I get Access is denied.

Now, I can browse to Rick > Favorites, and make any changes I want using
Explorer. And I've checked the NTFS Security, and my profile has Modify
control on the Favorites folder. And subfolders.

I also looked at the same folders in c:\Users\Rick, instead of just Desktop
> Rick, and there the permissions and ownership look screwy. And I can't
make any changes there at all. Can't take ownership, nothing, despite
logging in as an Admin, and okaying the prompts. I assume Vista doesn't want
you making the changes there, but want you to do it in the "virtual
locations". But then it won't let me there, either.

So, what's up with that? Any ideas?

--
Regards,

Rick Raisley

How did you create the entries in your favourites? A suggestion to try, is
to move all of your entries, if copied from another system, to a new folder
on the desktop. If this works, as it did on mine, you can try various ways
of adding them back to the favourites folder. I don't remember what worked
for me, but I initially had the same problem and now it works.


"Rick Raisley" <heavymetal-A-T-bellsouth-D-O-T-net> wrote in message
news:uculWEQgHHA.5044@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Okay, I'm using Vista Ultimate, logged in with an Admin account, yet when
> I
> go to save a Favorite in IE I get:
>
> Unable to create 'Website': Unspecified error
>
> If I try to create a folder in Favorites, I get Access is denied.
>
> Now, I can browse to Rick > Favorites, and make any changes I want using
> Explorer. And I've checked the NTFS Security, and my profile has Modify
> control on the Favorites folder. And subfolders.
>
> I also looked at the same folders in c:\Users\Rick, instead of just
> Desktop
> > Rick, and there the permissions and ownership look screwy. And I can't
> make any changes there at all. Can't take ownership, nothing, despite
> logging in as an Admin, and okaying the prompts. I assume Vista doesn't
> want
> you making the changes there, but want you to do it in the "virtual
> locations". But then it won't let me there, either.
>
> So, what's up with that? Any ideas?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Rick Raisley
>
>
>
>

I had to create a new folder in Favorites from IE, then I can save favorites
to it. Originally I used Windows Explorer to populate the favourites after
transferring from XP as I could not make any transfer method.


"John Barnes" wrote:

> How did you create the entries in your favourites? A suggestion to try, is
> to move all of your entries, if copied from another system, to a new folder
> on the desktop. If this works, as it did on mine, you can try various ways
> of adding them back to the favourites folder. I don't remember what worked
> for me, but I initially had the same problem and now it works.
>
>
> "Rick Raisley" <heavymetal-A-T-bellsouth-D-O-T-net> wrote in message
> news:uculWEQgHHA.5044@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> > Okay, I'm using Vista Ultimate, logged in with an Admin account, yet when
> > I
> > go to save a Favorite in IE I get:
> >
> > Unable to create 'Website': Unspecified error
> >
> > If I try to create a folder in Favorites, I get Access is denied.
> >
> > Now, I can browse to Rick > Favorites, and make any changes I want using
> > Explorer. And I've checked the NTFS Security, and my profile has Modify
> > control on the Favorites folder. And subfolders.
> >
> > I also looked at the same folders in c:\Users\Rick, instead of just
> > Desktop
> > > Rick, and there the permissions and ownership look screwy. And I can't
> > make any changes there at all. Can't take ownership, nothing, despite
> > logging in as an Admin, and okaying the prompts. I assume Vista doesn't
> > want
> > you making the changes there, but want you to do it in the "virtual
> > locations". But then it won't let me there, either.
> >
> > So, what's up with that? Any ideas?
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rick Raisley
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>