The recommended system requirements are:

Win XP
Pentium 3 500MHz processor + (or AMD Athlon equivalent)
50MB Free HD Space
Windows XP
1024x768
512MB RAM
64MB Graphics Card

Favoritestown is completely FREE.

The download is exactly 10.4MB in size which will take around 20 minutes to download with a 56kb/s connection or less than 3 minutes with a normal broadband connection.

There are a number of ways to add favorites to Favoritestown, here are all of them:

Manually

To add a favorite manually:

1. Open the option bar if it is not already visible.
2. Click on the add button.
3. When the add favorite form comes up, choose the orange box that indicates where you want your link to be stored.
4. Fill in the form that appears with the name, type, path and description of the favorite. You can click on the browse button to help fill in the path.
5. Confirm that you wish to add this favorite to Favoritestown.

Drag and Drop

To add a favorite using the drag and drop facility:

1. Open the option bar if it is not already visible.
2. Click on the add button.
3. When the add favorite form comes up, choose the orange box that indicates where you want your link to be stored.
4. Drag the program icon, file, folder or url from its containing folder to the form.
5. Confirm that you wish to add this favorite to Favoritestown.

Keeping multiple favorites together in a file

You can save lots of related favorites together in a filing cabinet.A number of buildings including the Business and Library contain these. These filing cabinets store up to 70 related links in each and sort the links alphabetically. To add a link to a filing cabinet:

1. Enter the filing cabinet by clicking on it.
2. Open the option bar if it is not already visible.
3. Click on the add button.
4. Add a favorite as above.
5. Confirm that you wish to add this favorite to Favoritestown.

On occassion you may wish to delete favorites from Favoritestown, heres how you do it:

From a room

To delete a favorite from a room:

1. Open the option bar if it is not already visible.
2. Click on the delete icon.
3. When the delete form comes up, choose the orange box that indicates where your link is stored.
4. Confirm that you wish to delete this favorite from the room.

From a file

To delete a favorite from a file:

1. Open the option bar if it is not already visible.
2. Click on the delete icon.
3. When the delete form comes up, locate the favorite in the list.
4. Click the x on the left of the favorite.
5. Confirm that you wish to delete this favorite from the file.

Deleting all of your favorites

To delete all of your favorites:

1. Open the option bar if it is not already visible.
2. Click on the options icon.
3. When the options form comes up, click reset all links.
4. Confirm that you wish to delete all of your favorites.

Not at all, you can browse through your town of favorites whilst not connected to your internet connection if you have a dial-up connection. When you want to connect just click the link and it will launch your browser and connection.

Yes. Provided you have your "library.xml" file you can access your favorites from Favoritestown on any computer. The library.xml file can be found in the folder into which you installed Favoritestown (usually Program Files/Favoritestown. Copy it to a memory stick or send it to yourself as an email attachment on your browser email system. On the new computer download Favoritestown then copy the file back into the install folder, overwriting the blank file just installed. Just make sure you don't overwrite your friend's favorites by mistake!