how to Transfer your Help and Support Center favorites to another system?

Transfer your Help and Support Center favorites to another system

When you add a link in the Help and Support Center to the Favorites, using the Add to Favorites button the entry gets added to a file named Favorites.stream


To transfer the favorites to another computer running Windows XP, copy the Favorites.stream file available in the following folder:

%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\HelpCtr

Prerequisite: The other computer where you want to transfer the favorites, must have Windows installed in the same drive/path as the source computer. This is because the Favorites.stream stores the URLs referencing the drive-letter.


For example, the favorites.stream file might refer to a help file in your Windows directory. Such as:


C : \ W I N D O W S \ H e l p \ f i l e f o l d . c h m