Show that software who's boss! Say, do you back up your computer? You should, weekly. There is software that does this, using an external hard drive. Some merely back up the data, others clone the entire hard drive. With the latter sort of backup, you can recover in case fiddling with the registry blows up your computer. Just return to the state it was in before. Of course, the most important use is to protect your data. Photos, for example. Hard drives seem to fail more often now than they used to. Once a hard drive fails, everything on it is unrecoverable absent spending four figures for a specialized service.

Try DSLExtreme.com They are based in California and the 2 times I have called which was for a minor thing I get to talk with someone without an accent and very helpful. The last time I called several months ago the lines were busy so I was asked to leave my name and phone number and they would call me back. 20 mintes later they did call me and I was shocked to say the least. Their prices are really reasonable and if you don't want to use their home page (most home pages are very cluttered) you pick what you want without something being thrown at you all the time. BTW, your choice of a home page is in your browser settings. They work perfectly with any browser you want and I recommend them highly!! I dumped MSN on my computer 2 year ago and it was the best thing I could have ever done and it cost me half as much. I might also mention I can not get high speed in my area of any kind and they also offer dialup which I am on.

I've never lost any bookmarks with Firefox but if I did there's always one backup in the profile folder and 5 backups in the bookmarkbackup folder. And if you want to keep more backups all you have to do is tweak the about:config to increase the number of backups. Seamonkey doesn't keep bookmark backups. Below is a link that explains how to recover lost bookmarks. HTH. Terry Here is a link that might be useful: Lost_bookmarks

I did all of the above. While a couple of old sites came up in a search, most of them were still missing. The trouble is that AOL uses IE but also has its own system, which is different. I am able to pull up the IE favorites but not the AOL favorites (which is most of my bookmarked sites). Then I read through all of the tutorials in the AOL Help section that pertain to Favorites. It says that they now use a system that does not save your favorites on your computer. Here is the exact language: Determine if 'Only Store my Favorite Places on my Computer' Is Checked. If it is not checked, it means your Favorite Places are saved online. AOL appreciates your patience during times when popular features may temporarily be unavailable. The AOL® System is sometimes very busy and may experience temporary issues that can lead to delays or slow response. Note: With AOL® 8.0 and higher versions, your Favorite Places are now stored on AOL® servers rather than on your computer. This allows you to access your Favorite Places from any location or computer that you use. For example, if you sign on as a guest on another computer, you will automatically have access to your Favorite Places. Or, if you buy a new computer, you won't have to worry about how to transfer your Favorite Places. I still can't find my Favorites :( I will have to contact AOL again and see if they're stored somewhere in their cybervault.