Apply Property Error when modifying Ratings, Description or Notes of a Favorite shortcut

This article provides the workaround to help you to solve the problem that an error message Apply Property Error occurs when you change the Ratings, Description, or Notes fields of a Favorite shortcut in Internet Explorer.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem with Microsoft Windows 7 including Microsoft Windows 7 with Service Pack 1.

Original product version:   Internet Explorer
Original KB number:   2568750

Symptoms

When you try to modify the Rating, Description and/or Notes fields from the Details tab of an Internet Explorer shortcut URL (for example, support.microsoft.com.url, which is located in the Favorites folder), an error message Apply Property Error appears when clicking Apply or OK (see the error message below):

Apply Property Error

An error occurred when writing the property 'Rating' to the file 'support.microsoft.com'.

Support.microsoft.com
Description of the default settings for the MimeMap property and for the ScriptMaps property in IIS
https://support.microsoft.com?...

Depending on the following setting(s) modified, the text of the Apply Property Error will change:

• Description
• Notes
• Rating

For the Description setting
The text of the error message is:

An error occurred when writing the property 'Description' to the file 'support.microsoft.com'.
Support.microsoft.com
https://support.microsoft.com/ ?...

For the Notes setting
The text of the error message is:

An error occurred when writing the property 'Notes' to the file 'support.microsoft.com'.
Support.microsoft.com
https://support.microsoft.com/ ?...

For the Rating setting
The text of the error message is:

An error occurred when writing the property 'Rating' to the file 'support.microsoft.com'.
Support.microsoft.com
https://support.microsoft.com/? ...

Resolution

The issue can be alleviated by manually editing the shortcut URL in a text editor such as notepad.exe. Simply copy and paste the desired setting (Description, Notes, and Ratings).

For the Description Field
[{5CBF2787-48CF-4208-B90E-EE5E5D420294}]
Prop21=31,<<< Add Description Field Text Here >>>

For the Description and Notes Fields, the text will need to be manually edited. The Description field outlined in Indigo in the image above. To add description text, start to the right of the comma after Prop21=31 (replacing <<< Add Description Field Text Here >>> highlighted in Red in the image above with the desired text).

For the Notes Field
[{B9B4B3FC-2B51-4A42-B5D8-324146AFCF25}]
Prop5=31,<<< Add Notes Field Text Here >>>

Likewise, the Notes Field outlined in Gree in the image above will also need to be manually edited. To add text to the Notes field, start to the right of the comma after Prop5=31 (replacing <<< Add Notes Field Text Here >>> highlighted in Red in the image above with the desired text).

For Star Ratings, all that is needed is to copy and paste the desired value, that is, 1 star, 2 star, 3 star, 4 star, and 5 star.

1 Star:
[{64440492-4C8B-11D1-8B70-080036B11A03}]
Prop9=19,1

2 Star:
[{64440492-4C8B-11D1-8B70-080036B11A03}]
Prop9=19,25

3 Star:
[{64440492-4C8B-11D1-8B70-080036B11A03}]
Prop9=19,50

4 Star:
[{64440492-4C8B-11D1-8B70-080036B11A03}]
Prop9=19,75

5 Star:
[{64440492-4C8B-11D1-8B70-080036B11A03}]
Prop9=19,99

Example of support.microsoft.com.url:

[{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
Prop3=19,2
[InternetShortcut]
URL= https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=121315
IDList=
[MonitoredItem]
FeedUrl= https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=121315
IsLivePreview=true
[{5CBF2787-48CF-4208-B90E-EE5E5D420294}]
Prop21=31, support.microsoft.com
[{B9B4B3FC-2B51-4A42-B5D8-324146AFCF25}]
Prop5=31, Support URLs
[{64440492-4C8B-11D1-8B70-080036B11A03}]
Prop9=19,99

ORIGINAL FILE: support.microsoft.com.url
Without modifying Description, Notes, or Ratings.

MODIFIED FILE (Description and Notes): support.microsoft.com.url
After manually modified with the description text Add Text Here for Description Field and the Notes Field Add Text Here for Notes field and 5 Star Rating.

More information

Here is all the manual settings that are introduced above: