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How important are your saved favorite sites, cookies, or feeds? I am quite sure that everyone repeats visits to same sites or adds certain sites to his/her favorite bunch! What happens if you lose all these links or need to work from another computer while having the same shortcuts? All you need to do is a simple backup of these settings and you can restore them to a new machine and have all your favorites with you! The technical term used is export and import your Internet browser settings and the following steps will show you how to perform such steps using Internet explorer and Mozilla Firefox:

Saving your Internet Explorer favorites, cookies, and feeds:

1. Open Internet Explorer and press the keyboard key ALT to display the menu bar
2. Click Import and Export… from the File menu item
   
3. Select Export to a file and click Next
4. Select all three options, that is, Favorites, Feeds and Cookies and click Next
5. Select the top folder Favorites or any sub-folder if you just need one and click Next
6. Click Next to the file location screen while taking a note of the location
7. Again, click Next to the feeds file location and click Export while leaving the default location for the cookies file

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