Hi,

Is if possible to remove the little arrow that appears on desktop
shortcuts in the bottom left corner of the icon?

It occurred to me that the icons would look better without the little
arrows, and I don't need reminding that they are shortcuts, after all I
created almost all of them anyway.

Thanks all.

On Mar 2, 2:57 pm, Poster Matt no_spam_for_me.org> wrote:

The easiest way is to get the TweakUI from t he Powertoys for XP.

It may look better to you but remember that you will not be ablle to tell
the difference between shortcuts and other programs and links.

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On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 13:15:58 -0700
"Colin Barnhorst" comcast.net> wrote:

Just say I do not know how.

1. Start regedit.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTlnkfile
3. Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

You may need to restart Windows XP.

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On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 13:52:25 -0700
"Colin Barnhorst" comcast.net> wrote:

Which is the answer for the question, not your opinion. We all have
opinions, however posters come for help :-).

What are you talking about? What opinion? I just gave the procedure.

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smlunatick wrote:

Thanks. But I can't find that tweak in TweakUI, are you sure? If so
where is it cos I can't find it and have just been through all the
options available, but maybe I missed it (I hope so)?

I'd prefer to use Tweak UI to do this, rather than Colin's registry
method, because of the ease of turning it back on again if I decide I
don't actually like it.

Thanks again.

Colin Barnhorst wrote:

Thanks Colin, v. helpful.

Should I take it that I cannot remove the shortcut arrows on an
individual basis (remove for this one but not for that one)?

Will deletion of this registry key, remove all shortcut arrows for the
whole of windows? I was hoping just to remove them for the desktop icons.

Colin Barnhorst wrote:

I'm not too worried about that for my desktop because I group icons of
alike things together. On the screen's left I have application icons, on
the bottom right there's a few system utilities, then temporary
shortcuts like my 'currently working on' documents and temp web links
are grouped in the top right corner or in a temp folder I keep there too.

I believe that it is either or for all shortcuts. I don't know of any way
to just remove them from desktop icons. You can drag a shortcut around
anywhere in explorer so I should think the key is global.

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