This has bugged me for years. In cleaning up my Internet Explorer favorites list, I always delete the Links folder as it is pretty much useless and just takes up space. Of course, every now and again IE recreates it. It has been a hand-fought battle between myself and IE to see who would give up first.

I win.

The way to get ride of the Links folder is to Hide it using folder properties. Ahh...

Why does the Links folder keep re-creating itself?

Those of you who dislike the Links folder have probably tried to delete it, only to discover that it keeps coming back. Why is that?

This is Internet Explorer trying to do some auto-repair. It noticed that the Links folder is missing, so it figures, "Gosh, it must be corrupted! I'd better fix the problem by creating a replacement."

People complain that computers can't perform self-repair, and then when the software tries to perform self-repair, they get mad. "But I wanted it to stay broken." You can't win.

The way to indicate, "Yes, I know about the Links folder, but I don't want to use it" is to hide it.