Windows 7 favorites not working in windows explorer

windows 7windows-explorer

For some reason I seem to have deleted all the favorites in the favorites menu in the file explorer. With favorites menu I mean this one:

Screenshot of Windows Explorer with Favorites on the left

Trying to add new links doesn't work and right clicking → Restore favorites doesn't work either. Trying to add a shortcut directly in the favorties folder within the user/favorites folder as described here doesn't work either. Right now I'm actually clueless what to do.

Best Answer

This worked for me.

I copied the Links folder from another user profile to %USERPROFILE%

Then verified that the reg key below was set to %USERPROFILE%\Links

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\\{374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B}

Killed/Relaunched explorer.exe with Task Manager.

Voila

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