Well, it looks like everything is working correctly now. The Windows 7 fix linked to by Brink wasn't necessary, but what I found from my investigations was that my user account profile directory was missing the Links folder, where the items under "Favorites" are stored as shortcuts. When I...
Thanks, NiFu, for letting me know that it works on your machine; that tells me something is corrupted on mine. I am now logged back into Windows 7 and have been busy researching this problem. I've found two useful pages:
Tips and Tricks to Make Full Use of Favorite Links
Remove Favorites...
Windows 8 has a very nice feature called "Snap", where you can have either two Metro apps or one Metro app and a "legacy" app sharing the screen. In order to use this feature, you have to have a screen resolution of at least 1366x768. My monitor maxes out at 1280x1024, so I apparently cannot...
I have a Windows 7 Ultimate dual booting with Windows 8 Consumer Preview on a Dell XPS 410. When I bring up Windows Explorer on the Desktop app, I would like to add several folders to the "Favorites" section of the navigation pane on the left side of the window, as I have done in Windows 7...