Richard's Portal Maker.
This free Visual Basic 6 program will scan your Internet Explorer (version 4, 5, 6 or 7) 'favourites' folders and create a local 'Netscape like' home page which can then be used as your personalised portal page. I've updated my portal maker to version 1.3.5. The changes are as follows:
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I've added the ability to display whereabouts in your favourites directory this URL was picked up from. This is especially useful when you have duplicate URL's and a very large favourites directory structure.
On the update to version 1.4.0. The changes made were as follows:
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I've added the ability to rebuild all of your favourites from the Portal page (It saved by bacon after a hard disk crash as I was able to rebuild all of the favourites from the Portal Page.
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I've fixed a few minor bugs.
Things that the Portal maker doesn't do:
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It doesn't convert Netscape bookmarks (at present). There is a program on the Microsoft web site that will do this.
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It doesn't convert Opera favourites (although I do have code to do that, it's not currently in the Portal maker).
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It wouldn't upload your portal page to anywhere, it was designed to give you a local portal so that when you start I.E., you aren't forced to connect immediately.
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It's not a favourites manager. Internet Explorer does a fair job of doing this, so I'm not going to reinvent the wheel.
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It doesn't work as an I.E. extension, so it doesn't recognise when you have added a new favourite and automatically regenerate your portal.
To download my Local Portal Maker installation set (creates a local
portal from your favourites directory) then click here.
Warning it's nearly 2 mb in size. So if you've already downloaded
it or you've got Visual Basic 6 (Service Pack 4) installed, then download
just the .EXE from here
(this is only 31K).
If you want a copy of the source files then click here.