How to get get IE favorites

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The GetIEFavourites function called from the OnClick event of a button returns a list of all the favorites from your Internet Explorer in a ListBox.

 

function GetIEFavourites(const favpath: string):TStrings;
var
	searchrec:TSearchrec;
	str:TStrings;
	path,dir,filename:String;
	Buffer: array[0..2047] of Char;
	found:Integer;
begin
	str:=TStringList.Create;
	try
		path:=FavPath+'*.url';
		dir:=ExtractFilepath(path) ;
		found:=FindFirst(path,faAnyFile,searchrec) ;
		while found=0 do begin
			SetString(filename, Buffer,
			GetPrivateProfileString('InternetShortcut',
			PChar('URL'), NIL, Buffer, SizeOf(Buffer),
			PChar(dir+searchrec.Name))) ;
			str.Add(filename) ;
			found:=FindNext(searchrec) ;
		end;
		found:=FindFirst(dir+'*.*',faAnyFile,searchrec) ;
		while found=0 do begin
			if ((searchrec.Attr and faDirectory) > 0)
			and (searchrec.Name[1]<>'.') then
			str.AddStrings(GetIEFavourites
			(dir+''+searchrec.name)) ;
			found:=FindNext(searchrec) ;
		end;
		FindClose(searchrec) ;
	finally
		Result:=str;
	end;
end;

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject) ;
var
	pidl: PItemIDList;
	FavPath: array[0..MAX_PATH] of char;
begin
	SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(Handle, CSIDL_FAVORITES, pidl) ;
	SHGetPathFromIDList(pidl, favpath) ;
	ListBox1.Items:=GetIEFavourites(StrPas(FavPath)) ;
end;
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