Create a Shortcut to Search Your IE Favorites With Windows 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 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?