Find Favorites

Find Favorites is a freeware program that searches Internet Explorer's favorites, searching both the favorite's description and the page's address. Matching favorites are shown in a list - double-clicking on any of them opens them in the default browser.

Downloading instructions

Find Favorites runs on Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP.

The latest version of Find Favorites is 1.11 (download size 572Kb). A list of changes can be found below.

• Download from Find Favorites homepage

Download the set-up program to a suitable directory on your hard disk, then install by double-clicking on the downloaded file.

Follow the instructions in the set-up program and Find Favorites will be automatically installed.

Press the F1 key, or select Contents from the Help menu to get help when using Find Favorites.

Find Favorites can be removed using the Add/Remove programs applet in Control Panel.

Revision history

Version 1.11 (Released: 29th March 2004)

• Added option to add Find Favorites to Internet Explorer's Toolbar

Version 1.10 (Released: 26th October 2003)

• Fixed missing last character in URLs in some cases.
• Updated email and homepage addresses.

Version 1.09 (Released: 5th July 2003)

• Added automatic search from the command-line.
• Rearranged tab order of controls on the main window.
• Added <ALT>+<S> hotkey to set focus to search line

Version 1.08 (Released: 10th February 2003)

• Corrected display issues when Windows is set to use large fonts.
• Prevented multiple instances running at the same time.
• Ensured cache file is created in application directory, not current directory.

Version 1.07 (Released: 23rd November 2002)

• Added ability to delete a favorite.

New Installer (Released: 20th June 2000)

• Now using a new set-up program.
  [No changes made to Find Favorites application - still Version 1.06 (SR1)].

Version 1.06 (SR1) (Released: 8th April 2000)

• Added option to switch caching on and off.
• Updated web page URL and email address.

Version 1.06 (Released: 12th February 2000)

• Added cache to speed up searching the favorites folder.
• Adding favorites to the results list is now around 8 times faster.

Version 1.05 (SR1) (Released: 1st November 1999)

• Improved reliability of Ctrl + Double-clicking URLs.

Version 1.05 (Released: 16th October 1999)

• Changed URL opening behaviour when Shift and Ctrl keys pressed.

Version 1.04 (Released: 22nd September 1999)

• Copy Name or URL of selected favorite to the Clipboard.
• Smaller installer program.

Version 1.03 (Released: 15th September 1999)

• Added option to add Find Favorites to the Start menu, Desktop and Internet Explorer's Links bar.

Version 1.02 (Released: 9th September 1999)

• First public release.

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