Favorites Folder
The Favorites folder contains Internet shortcut files for Microsoft Internet Explorer. Internet shortcut files function in a similar way to link files in that they contain information about their target and the user accesses the target by clicking the shortcut file. In this case, the files have an extension of .url, which stands for Uniform Resource Locator. The target of an Internet shortcut is a URL, which is typically a web address but could just as easily be to a file on the local host or on a network resource.
A URL file has a unique header—[InternetShortcut], or at least it has remained so until recently. With Windows 7, that header has changed, as shown in Figure 9-42. Immediately following the string [InternetShortcut] ...
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