At first I thought it was Internet explorer 11 itself that was the reason for the favorite links not working I was even not able to sign in to places like amazon. I uninstalled IE 11 and my links worked and was able to sign in. I re-installed IE 11 and
the links worked, and was able to sign in, and then Microsoft Update says that there is acalmative security update for Internet explorer 11 for windows 7 for x64 based systems KB2898785I installed the update and my favorites links stopped working and I was unable to sign in, so I uninstalled that update and manually installed KB2898785
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41468&lc=1033
I was again unable to use my favorites links and unable to sign into amazon, I have this narrowed down to KB2898785. I currently have KB2898785 uninstalled until I can get some answers as to what I should do about this. I will not go to Microsoft answers because 90% of their answers are wrong and tend to misguide me down the wrong paths!