Can not organise favourites like I used to?

Question

Hi
So, I'm bust finally making the switch to Win 8.1 from XP Home across my household, all fine apart from the fact that I don't seem to be able to organise non html based favourites on IE's favourites bar.
Example:
I always have my Hotmail email address passcard from RoboForm as my first icon on my favourites bar but since moving to IE11 its been placed right at the end of all my favourites, after all the HTML favourites.  I move it but it goes back to the end
following a restart of IE.
I never had this problem before, Ive used RoboForm with IE6, 7 and 8 with no problems.
Please help :-)

Answer 1

Hello Matt.
I see what you mean.  It's an interesting challenge.
The favorites bar folder can be seen in File Explorer (formerly Windows Explorer) as:
ThisPC ▸ Windows 8 (C:) ▸ Users ▸ JohnDoe ▸ Favorites ▸ Favorites Bar
Through magic of the desktop.ini file in there, the folder name is localized to "Favorites Bar".  Its actual name is "Links".  Here's what you'll see in Command Prompt, or if you click the File Explorer address bar:
C:\Users\JohnDoe\Favorites\Links
As an experiment.  I dropped a plaintext file "hello.txt" into it, and adjusted its position on the IE Favorites Bar.  Upon restarting IE11, its position reverted to the end of the group, just as you explained.  That's frustrating,
isn't it.  Shown in picture linked below.
I found a way to permanently reposition it, though.  It worked for this simple txt file at least.  The trick is to reuse any bookmark in the Favorites Bar, as follows.  Begin by making a bookmark to
anywhere as a temporary template, and put it into the Favorites Bar.  Rename it
test.  Next, right-click it and select its Properties.  Within its Properties, find the URL field.  Edit that URL to point to the complete file path of your desired file.  You know, like C:\Users\JohnDoe\blahblah.  In your
case, it would be the full path to that RoboForm link I guess.  Then click Apply.  When you click Apply, you'll see the file path you supplied will be transformed into URL format (backslashes change to forward slashes, and protocol prefix File://).
In the picture linked below, you'll see that's what I did.  That "test" bookmark is pointing to the hello.txt file.  It keeps whatever position I assign it on the Favorites Bar.  Mission accomplished.   ...Oh, wait. 
Not done yet.  Now that "hello.txt" file is redundant there at the end.  But that's ok.  I could now cut-n-paste it to somewhere else, so it doesn't appear there in the Favorites Bar.  Then adjust the "test" bookmark's
URL field accordingly.  I should've done that in the first place.  dumb.  Next time I'll know.
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