Name of Explorer Bookmark File

[Nathan Schwartz]

I have 96 favorites and they occupy only 5.75KB (5,891 bytes). If you want
to lock your favorites, you will need to write an html file, make it
read-only, and last, set  your  start page to that file. We just place the
bookmarks on our web site and then update the site. All the computers are
configured to start with our library home page. I used IEAK from Microsoft
to customize IE 3.0 and lock the start page and all security options
including Active X out. Our patrons can't change anything because  all
controls are "grayed out". You can do this with Netscape but involves
editing the screens with VB. I would do this but do not want to spend time
editing something that will expire in 60 days. 


Nathan Schwartz
Automation Systems Manager
Anderson Public Library
(317) 641-2455 fax 2468

nathan at apl.acsc.net
http://www.acsc.net/apl/

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> From: Ed Cherry <cecherry at samford.edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
> Subject: Re: RE: Name of Explorer Bookmark File
> Date: Tuesday, November 26, 1996 11:10 AM
> 
> 
> On Tue, 26 Nov 1996 06:00:29 -0800 "David S. Vaughan" 
> <dsvaughn at wentworth.region.library.on.ca> wrote:
> 
> > IE doesn't have a bookmark file in the sense of Netscape (at least in =
> > Win95 and, I suspect, NT).  Instead, it creates a Win95 shortcut file =
> > for each site and stores them in C:\Windows\Favorites.  Can't say for =
> > certain how the Win3.1 version works.
> > 
> In my opinion, this is yet another strike against MSIE.  Here's 
> why:  I have 157 "favorite" web sites in this directory and its 
> subs.  These 157 files together take up less than 10k of disk 
> space.  But, since I have a 1gig uncompressed hard drive, where 
> each sector is 32k, these 157 files in total occupy 5.1 MB!  
> There's 99% "slack" or unused space where these files are 
> stored.  In contrast, my Netscape bookmark.htm is ONE file of 
> 32k, so it actually occupies only 32k sector of disk real 
> estate.  If you have a large hard drive, think carefully before 
> you add all those "favorites."  
> 
> In a public setting, netscape's bookmark.htm is much easier to 
> protect than this ridiculously wasteful alternative.
> 
> I know, I know, this is in part due to the outdated design of 
> the file allocation system DOS and its heirs use.  But, if 
> ANYone should be aware of this limitation, wouldn't it be 
> Microsoft!?
> 
> Here's another, somewhat related question:  I have continued 
> to use the 16-bit version of Netscape on our public Win95 
> machines.  I can make the netscape.ini file read-only to prevent 
> alterations.  Netscape for Win95 stores its settings in the 
> system registry instead of an .ini file. Has anyone found a way 
> of preventing users from changing Netscape preferences with the 
> 32-bit version?  I'm reluctant to keep "canonical" versions of 
> the user.dat and system.dat files and replace them at startup.
> 
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