If you have newly installed Windows 10 on New PC or Dual Boot with earlier version of Windows, you may wonder how to transfer the favorites to Edge browser. It is easy to import favorites from Internet Explorer to Edge on Windows 10 if you are upgraded. But if you did a clean install, importing favorites from Earlier version is bit tricky.
Here is how I did it:
Environment: I have a PC with Dual Boot enabled for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10
Note: If you are doing a clean install Windows 10 on a PC, before installing windows 10 you must export the favorites to file and copy it to a secure location for later use.
Step 1: Export the Favorites from Old version
On Windows 8.1 Open Internet Explorer , Press Alt + F, Move down and select Import Export. Select Export to a file option in the Dialog window and click next. Select Favorites and Click Next. Select the folders you want to export and click next. Select the file location you want to save.
Step 2: Import the favorites in Internet Explorer in Windows 10
Note: Since the Edge browser does not support importing from html file directly, you have to import it to Internet Explorer and then import to Edge.
Copy the exported favorites to Windows 10. Open the Internet Explorer and Import the favorites from file.
If you can not see the menu/icon for internet explorer in Windows 10, you open it by typing it in Cortana Search Box.
On Windows 10 Internet Explorer , Press Alt + F, Move down and select Import Export. Select Import from a file option in the Dialog window and click next. Select Favorites and Click Next. Select the html file path you want to import and click next. Now favorites imported to the Internet Explorer in Windows
Step 3: Import favorites to Edge from Internet Explorer on Windows 10
Open the Edge Browser, and click on the Hub link in the top right corner (3 Lines)
Click on the import favorites, and on the pane which opened will show the browsers you have installed. Select the Internet Explorer and Click Import. When import completed, you will see All Done message.
