24th May 2000

What's the matter? Mouse got your tongue? Internet Explorer stores Favorites differently than Netscape Communicator stores Bookmarks: in separate files as opposed to a single file. Like most users, you probably have hundreds of them -- 99% of which you never visit. Remember bookmarking that one page? It was hosted on GEOCITIES.COM, but... that's all you remember. IE users: fire up the Windows Find applet (press the Start button, select 'Find,' then 'Files or Folders...'), look in \Windows\Favorites (or wherever yours are stored), then in the 'Containing text' field, enter 'geocities.com' (or whatever string you're searching for). Netscape users: in the same Find applet, do a search the file called 'bookmark.htm' and open it up in any text editor of choice (Notepad); within that environment, you can look for your string with an (assumed) internal 'find' feature.