The Favorites menu in Internet Explorer lets you organise and arrange the shortcuts by dragging each shortcut to your preferred location within the Favorites menu.

If you use the Import/Export Wizard in Internet Explorer, or even manually copy the URL favorites to computer, the favorites order is not copied to the target system.

This is due to the fact that Internet Explorer stores the sort order in the registry, and the Import/Export Wizard does not reference the sort order registry key.

In order to have the custom favorites order applied to another computer, export the following registry key from the source computer:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ MenuOrder \ Favorites

1. Launch Regedit.exe and navigate to the above branch
2. From the File menu, choose Export
3. Save the branch to a REG file (e.g: sortfavorites.reg).
4. Copy this .reg file to the computer that you are transferring the Favorites to.
5. On the target computer, delete the registry branch:
   
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ MenuOrder \ Favorites
   
6. Then double-click the REG file (favorites.reg) on the target computer to run it.

Your sort sort is now restored to the new computer.