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Changing or removing shortcut arrow
gra...@ani1.com microsoft public windowsnt misc Juan José Mata wrote: I have used Tweak UI to change the shortcut arrow to "none" or "small". Instead if it, i get a "recycle bin" or a "Shared PC" over my shortcut desktop icons. How can i solve this?. My configuration is: NT 4.0 SP3 IE4.0 Desktop.

IE4 and shortcut arrows
Does Microsoft have a version of Tweak UI that is compatible with Win 2000? I don't really care for third party stuff if I can avoid it. If not, how do I modify the registry to delete those nasty little arrows? OnTrack's SystemSuite can do it for you. I bought it recently and have been quite impressed. Bertie.

Desktop Icons Question
Use TweakUI On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 11:38:26 -0500, "Steven" <sthom...@nospam.i1.net> wrote: TweakUI had a delightful setting that allowed you to select "none" for the desktop shortcut icons. Is there any way to lose the annoying little arrows from my desktop? Any info, to email if possible, would be appreciated!

Desktop icons
Xray JHBar...@email.msn.com microsoft public windowsme general Hi, Can I remove the shortcut arrow on desktop icons without installing that legacy program (that I can't remember the name of) that wasn't supported by Bill Gates? John.

Losing the shortcut arrow on desktop icons
Shortcut keys support. - Added support for UTF-8 subtitles text encoding (multilanguage character sets). - Automatic (and manual) check for program updates. if automatic desktop icons placement is selected or if the screen resolution is changed there is the possibility that the icons shortcuts position on the

Restoring NT Shortcut Arrow
Just reset it to not show the arrow and its working fine. I did a reinstall of Win95 and when I booted up, the shortcut icons are messed up. The icons installed by windows, ie my computer ect. are ok. I have gone into properties and changed icon to what they should be, but when I go back to the desktop,

Remove "Shortcut" arrow from icons
Is MS telling me I must have TWO IE icons just to have, say, Ctrl-Alt- keystroke launch functionality? No. You do only need one icon, but this icon must be a shortcut. The Internet Explorer icon on the Desktop is not a shortcut (no small arrow). It is - seen from MS-DOS - not a LNK file.

Shortcut Overlay Arrow
Found this tiny piece on a page and not sure it works, but you may be able to give it a try: "Kill the Arrow: Here's how you can remove shortcut arrows without editing the Registry or installing TweakUI. Right click on the Desktop, and bring up the Properties dialog box. Then select Appearance and choose Icon from

Red shortcut on desktop icons
... Mugur <Mu...@discussions.microsoft.com> had this to say: My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: Ken when i open the "pif"file on the right pane i get ab(Default) REG_SZ piffile. is this the one i should delete to remove the arrows from the desktop icons? I'm sure Ken will answer in time but once again

My Computer (the desktop version is a shortcut)
Running under Windows 95, two years ago I downsized all my desktop icons to remove the arrow indicating that they were shortcuts. After downloading ie5.5, the arrows have reappeared and no amount of downsizing removes them. Any other suggestions? *** SP, Have you looked at the options on the TweakUI Control Panel

Why seemingly two basic kinds of Desktop icons?
the shortcut arrows on all desktop icons change to a totally arbitrary "Form". For instance, all of the icons were normal one second, and then immediately after opening Windows Explorer, and performing a non-descript search on something, I noticed the shortcut arrows were now changed to contain a "corner" of Cmmgr

Can't get rid of shortcut arrow on desktop icons anymore
I use a drafting software and have alot of projects with short cut icons. Every time I shut down and boot back up I have to re-arrange the order of my icons. Right click on desktop and move arrow to arrange icons by,then select your option. Specifically, be sure Auto Arrange is unmarked.

Shortcuts and non-shortcuts.
All overlapping images (shortcut arrow, hand image on shared folders) = and=20 icons of executables which do not contain any icons became weird. PS Screenshot is attached on which you can observe desktop icons overlapped by printers folder icon. PPS It would be very kind of you to E-MAIL me (just delete

Removing shortcut arrow from desktop icons
but the problem did not go away. i eventually traced the desktop garbage images to the shell32.dll file and found that the little shortcut arrow is stored file and tries to index to "" for the shortcut arrow, before retrieving the desktop icons from applications and deciding not to display the shortcut arrow,

Tweak UI small shortcut arrow being overridden
Shortcut icons have a small curved arrow in the lower-left corner. To remove the arrow, follow these instructions: Start the Registry Editor Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ lnkfile Delete the value IsShortcut Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ piffile Delete the value IsShortcut Close the Registry Editor and restart Windows Dave.

Removing the arrow on Desktop icons
If there's a small arrow pointing to the left in the notification area of your Taskbar, click on it. It's possible that the Safely Remove Hardware icon is hotplug.dll If you can't find a permanent solution to this problem then you can create a shortcut on your Desktop using the above command as the target.

Can't get rid of shortcut arrow on desktop icons anymore
Jon texasrock...@cox-internet.com alt windows98 Try right-clicking the icon and choose "rename" Delete the words "shortcut to" in the name. gd...@bellatlantic.net wrote: After installing IE6 today I noticed that shortcut arrows had mysteriously reappeared on my desktop icons even though I had removed them using

HELP !!! Crazy overlay icons in IE4
Everything seems to be working ok Do you mean that you have always had these Icons on your Desktop & now they have the little upturned arrows on them? & they used not to have? & you just want to get rid of the arrows? Or do you want to get rid of the Icons? As several people have said, you can delete the Shortcut

can't drag and drop to open files
Select the option for Safe Mode using the arrow keys. Then press enter on your keyboard to boot into Safe Mode. NOW Scan with SUPER Open from the desktop icon or the program First it was trying to go to a storageprotector site and left two desktop shortcut icons - Windows Update and Help and Support Center.

Can't get rid of shortcut arrow on desktop icons anymore
Your only option would be to have the app create Microsoft desktop shortcuts as part of the install, and have the Zen shortcuts only appear in the John_S...@eastkct.training.wa.gov.au wrote: Hi all Wondering if anyone knows a way of removing the red shortcut arrow that appears on all icons created as an