Windows 7 forum: Lost all my favourites

Which program and where did you download it from?

If IE Favorites have gone then there is little that can be done. To make sure there are no favorites you can check the C:\Users\{Username}\Favorites , where {Username} is the name of the account you are logged into Windows with.

If there is nothing there you can import from your backup.

Mark

Did you search for that folder location I gave you? If so, what did you find?

If there was nothing there then I would try these options;

1] First, try a System Restore back to a date before you installed this freeware software. Go to the Start button and type into the search box, System Restore and click the first option in the list. Find a date before this occurred and restore your system back to then. I am not hopeful that this will restore your Favorites as a System Restore does not generally affect personal files and data.

2] Whether that works or not, I would then scan with your Microsoft Security Essentials anti-virus scanner, a full scan. Make sure that Spybot's background scanner called TeaTimer is not running and keep that disabled.

3] Also, download, install, then run to update the free versions of Malwarebytes Anti-malware and SUPERAntiSpyware. After they are both updated, run Full Scans with both, one after the other.

See how you get on with those options.

Mark

Mark, have done a system restore back 24 hours, no change. Ran Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus scanner, no change. I have been using Spybot for some years now and it has found the program, but it says it cannot uninstall as it needs administrative rights to remove it, but as I said in my earlier posting, I am the administrator.

I would follow the guidance in the link below to remove FunWebProducts;
http://www.pchell.com/support/mywebsearch.shtml

That link also tells that FunWebProducts is also a part of "My Web Search" so you may be looking for other titles to remove besides FWP.

If that does not find your Favorites then I fear they are gone.

Mark

That's confusing indeed. Even if you are an administrator, you only have limited administrative rights.

So find the exe in Windows Explorer or My Computer, right click and choose "Run as administrator". Then it runs with full administrative rights. It might be able to do the removing then. Worth a try.

Kees

Kees,
I have just done this, but it still says the same that I need to be the administrator even after I re-set explorer. Okay, still there so will have to rethink. Thanks anyway.

How did you get on with that?

Mark

Mark,

The information from the link did not remove it so I had to sit with it for about four hours removing each link, and there were hundreds in the end. Anyway, hopefully all sorted now. Many thanks for the advice.

and thank you for reporting back to tell us.

Mark