Windows 10 How to Find the Favorites Bar in Microsoft Edge

davehc

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Yeh. A navigational nightmare. Click the three horizontal Ines and select Settings.
Scroll down and select view favourites settings
select (now, finally, obvious!) Show favourites bar.

 

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Thank you davehc.
Thus, what you answer me i know a long time ago, but my question was nor clearly posten.
What i want to know is where the system keep the favorites of Microsoft Edge in HD.
Because the favorite of IE, they reside in HD in:
c:\users\USER\Favorites.
Is OK now?
Thanks

 

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MikeHawthorne

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Hi

Try this...

C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC\MicrosoftEdge\User\Default\Favorites

Mike

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Mike:
Thank you for your help again.
But this location was already find by me but i don´t know why, it is not updated.
I put more addresses into some folders in favorites, but they does not appear in that location.
I think is a mistery, because in this location only appear the favorites that i imported from IE11 when i start using Microsoft Edge.
Ooooops!!!

 

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davehc

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I believe they are stored in the registry, but are encrypted, so you will not be able to see them as text. Edge is, of course, one of the new so-called Apps.,so are in the link given by Mike, somewhere.

 

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Neemobeer

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You're not going to be able to add them manually. Edge creates the files in the above mentioned folder, it also creates registry entries for the favorite, creates a GUID for it and updates the favorite info in a database file.

 

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I've confirmed it's not encrypted. Here is a partial view of mine. Edge stores them in a database called spartan.edb

 

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Hi

I tried using Edge but it only took me an hour to go back to Chrome.
Edge just makes everything harder to do.

Mike

 

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Neemobeer said:

I've confirmed it's not encrypted. Here is a partial view of mine. Edge stores them in a database called spartan.edb
Tks. That was, for me, was a good one!.
I guess, Curious, you will have to see if you can manipulate that Dbase - or use Chrome.

Click to expand...

 

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Thank you all.
I think mis better to use IE 11 or Safari or Chrome.
Until using Edge i use IE11 e i think is very good too.
Once more thank you
Curious

 

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I am more positive. I like the speed of Edge, here it is faster than chrome, I like the built-in flash player and pdf reader and MS claims it to being more secure but this should be proofed.

I use it as my standard browser and I am happy with it.

But I had some problems with my favourites and synchronizing them between the computers I am using. It looks like deleted favourites survived on a different computer....

 

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Edge definitely runs differently that any other browser. It runs entirely in a svchost.exe service container. There are at least 4 components involved. RuntimeBroker.exe which spawns two processes each called MicrosoftEdgeCP.exe. I assume these CP processes are what fetch content since CP stands for content process. Both of these run with a Low Mandatory Level which means they can't write data to any folder that has a Medium or High Mandatory level with NO-WRITE-UP. So on there own they could only write to your LocalLow appdata folder. The MicrosoftEdge.exe also runs in a Low Mandatory level so it also can't write to much on your drive. Last there is Browser_broker.exe. This process has a medium mandatory level so it could write to disk. I believe the other processes tie into this to handle downloading files/data.

 

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This means that it is indeed more secure?

 

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I would say so, but it doesn't mean it's impossible to exploit Edge. It's already been done

 

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