Create a Shortcut to Search Your IE Favorites With Windows 7 or Vista Search
One of our great forum members asked yesterday how to search through your Internet Explorer Favorites, which got me thinking… if you are using Windows 7 or Vista, it’s as simple as creating a saved search folder.
Open up your User folder and you should see your Favorites folder inside it. Double-click to open the Favorites folder.
Now enter in the following into the search box to find all bookmarks in the last hundred years or so:
date:>1/1/1900
Click the Save Search button on the toolbar, and then give it a friendly name like Search Favorites. You’ll see that the default save location is User Folder \ Searches.
Now when you browse to that folder you’ll see a search folder called Search Favorites. Note that you can create a shortcut to this anywhere you’d like… the Quick Launch bar, for instance.
Once you open up the Search Folder, you can simply type in your search into the search box to find whatever you are looking for.
You can change the view to show details via the Views menu.
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Do you have any idea how I could extend this to Google bookmarks or del.ico.us
THANK YOU! This tweak on searching in IE Favorites in Vista is excellent. My old computer (Win98SE) had a utility to search in Favs, and I was unable to find a replacement. This is SO COOL.
Max
I’ve got over 3000 favorites saved in folder hierarchies… its messy, i’ll get around to social bookmarking and tagging one day, but for now I’m looking for a specific link i’ve saved. The filename doesn’t have the domain name in it, how can I search for link by the domain name?
For example, “News Page” has property link of http://www.whatever.com/news. I want to search for this by looking for whatever. Tried the above method, with a search in contents and still nothing comes up. Anyone?
I did exactly as it is suggested, however it doesn’t work.
Nadeem: You can use a plugin called DzSoft Favorites Search to do what you want to do, which is to search url’s / domain names. It can be downloaded here: http://www.dzsoft.com/favorites-search.html
As a matter of fact, I later found out that this very site made mention of it and provided a review of the program, for which a link is providen on the Favorites Search website, which is why I don’t understand why this article doesn’t provide a link to their other article. (Well, I guess it’s worth pointing out that the other article is mentioned under the Related Articles section entitled: Search Your Internet Explorer Favorites From Within IE in Vista or XP.) The link for the article on this website is this: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto.....sta-or-xp/
It explains in detail how to get the button to appear in your toolbar, which is the most convenient / fastest way to be able to open up the plugin to perform your search. It also mentions other things the plugin can do.