Remove short cut arrows

How to

Published on February 9, 2006 By Zayde In Object Desktop

How do you remove shortcut arrows. I tried to use Tweakui but did not work.

Thanks

Irv

Comments

Adamness

on Feb 10, 2006

I have something called Tweak-XP Pro. I got a demo version a few months ago. It has only 30 uses, but you don't need to open it very often. It does a lot of nifty stuff, including getting rid of the shortcut dealy.

Link

Zayde

on Feb 10, 2006

Does it remove it when your using stardock themes etc.?

Zayde

on Feb 10, 2006

I found the answer to this so I am sharing with the group.

If you open up "Icon Packager", Click on the "settings icon" (left side). The second Item down on the list "Display Shortcut Overlay Icon" and uncheck it.

That's it...

Irv

liquidguru

on Feb 10, 2006

you can also do it without IP, using regedit :-

1. Start regedit.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile
3. Delete the IsShortcut registry value.
4. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\piffile
5. Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

and to remove the 'shortcut to..' prefix

1. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
2. Change the 'link' REG_BINARY to 00 00 00 00
3. Repeat for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

you may have to re-boot....and please be careful when fiddling with your registry

WebGizmos

on Feb 10, 2006

Here's an similar article from TweakXp about this. Link I've used this method and it works great.

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