Saving Favorites in IE7 on Windows Vista

Via Robert McLaws who obtained the solution from Windows MVP Jimmy Brush:

Solution:

1. Open a Command Prompt as an administrator.
2. Browse to the folder that contains your Favorites folder. That means whichever folder your Favorites folder is in.
3. Copy this statement, right click the Command Prompt window at the prompt, and select paste:
   icacls favorites /setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)low

Explanation:

IE7 runs in "Protected Mode" with UAC on. Protected Mode sandboxes practically anything IE-related. So Microsoft came up with a concept called "Integrity" that defines the permissions level of given folders, outside the standard ACL security structure. You have to let IE know that it's ok two write to a given folder that has higher permissions.

NOTE: You may also need to do this to the Documents and Downloads folders too, if you want to be able to save stuff from IE7.

 I agree with Robert that this method is much better than operating Windows Vista with the UAC turned off.