The majority of people probably access their favorite Web sites by opening Internet Explorer and selecting the Favorites menu. You can then find the links to all your all-time favorite Web sites.

Now there are several other ways of accessing your list of favorites and here is yet another one. You can create a window on your desktop that shows your list of favorites that you would normally see in Internet Explorer. The nice thing about this is that you don’t even have to open Internet Explorer to access these Web sites.

To view your favorite links on your desktop, click Start, click Run, and type iexplore -channelband. Once you type in the command, an elongated window will appear on your desktop that displays your favorites as they would appear on the Favorites menu in IE. You can close the window by clicking the “x” in the corner. Once you do, Windows will then prompt you as to whether you want the window to reappear next time you restart your computer.