Vista - Quick Launch shortcuts location

Just out of interest does anyone know why the Quick Launch shortcuts in
a user profile are stored in the 'AppData - Roaming - Microsoft -
Internet Explorer' folder ?
The connection between Quick Launch and Internet Explorer is not obvious
to me other than IE being one of my shortcuts. This not unique to
Vista.

Tom

I think Quick Launch began with the Active Desktop update for IE4, and the
Quick Launch folder has been a subfolder of Microsoft\Internet Explorer,
somewhere under the (User Name) directory, ever since. It may be Internet
Explorer-related, because the shortcuts in that folder only require one
click to open (from the Toolbar), much like a link in IE, despite having
double-click the default for you other Desktop shortcuts.


"Tom Allen" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Just out of interest does anyone know why the Quick Launch shortcuts in a
> user profile are stored in the 'AppData - Roaming - Microsoft - Internet
> Explorer' folder ?
> The connection between Quick Launch and Internet Explorer is not obvious
> to me other than IE being one of my shortcuts. This not unique to Vista.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>

"dean-dean" <dean-dean@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I think Quick Launch began with the Active Desktop update for IE4, and
>the Quick Launch folder has been a subfolder of Microsoft\Internet
>Explorer, somewhere under the (User Name) directory, ever since. It may
>be Internet Explorer-related, because the shortcuts in that folder only
>require one click to open (from the Toolbar), much like a link in IE,
>despite having double-click the default for you other Desktop
>shortcuts.
>
>
> "Tom Allen" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:eYyW3BT1HHA.4500@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Just out of interest does anyone know why the Quick Launch shortcuts
>> in a user profile are stored in the 'AppData - Roaming - Microsoft -
>> Internet Explorer' folder ?
>> The connection between Quick Launch and Internet Explorer is not
>> obvious to me other than IE being one of my shortcuts. This not
>> unique to Vista.
>>
>> Tom
>>

Thanks for that Dean. I wondered if it was historical but didn't know
why.
Tom