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Removing shortcut arrow from desktop icons
Steven sthom...@nospam.i1.net microsoft public win2000 setup 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!

Shortcut Arrow
Finally, it appears that MS can't even get the visuals correct--some non-short-cut icons lack the little black arrow, don't they? Right clicking on the desktop icon for IE is a case in point - they presumably decided that in this special case of a system folder, the user was more interested in the *internal*

Can't get rid of shortcut arrow on desktop icons anymore
Do not release the right button until the """ARROW"" is over the icon for Notepad. When you release you will be given two options, namely, I am unable to drag a txt file onto a notepad shortcut icon on my desktop and have it open the application with that txt file open. all xp let's me do is drag the txt file

".lnk" extension on desktop icons
Dee "sis...@netaxs.com" wrote: Dee <gee...@intergrafix.net> wrote: "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 the Item box.

Faxes are Stretched
Anthony Moore a...@po01.dt.unisys.com comp os ms-windows win95 misc microsoft public technet Does anyone know how I can get the little arrow for desktop shortcuts back, the only thing that shows is a little bar |. The icons look ok in explorer and for open folders, also I ran tweaku and it didn't fix the desktop.

Can't get rid of shortcut arrow on desktop icons anymore
My shortcut Icon is now the Powerpoint icon superimposed on a folder (you can see it in the lower left corner) and the shared folder icon has changed from a folder with a hand under it to a folder with the Paint program icon superimposed on it. When I go into TweakUI and choose desktop, and then select no arrow,

Lost short cut arrow on desktop icons
Karl Snooks wi...@hushmail.com microsoft public windowsxp general jmartin, using Win+F then locate c:\windows\notepad.exe RtClk on \windows\notepad.exe and choose "Send to" Choose Desktop (create shortcut) If you will drag your file, using the rt mouse button, to where the "ARROW" points to that icon for notepad,

Windows Vista UI Bugs
There ought to be one that says Toolbars and an arrow ..is there a Quick Launch context menu item there? There is on mine and it has a check mark on it. Well, if its there unchecked try For the most part any program that I install that ends up putting a ShortCut Icon on the Desktop ...I immediately Delete them.

Outlook Express taskbar icon on a Win 95 set
I've been running my Win95b system for four years with NO shortcut arrows on my desktop icons, thanks to TweakUI. There weren't any arrows when I shut down last night, but when I started up this morning, the arrows were there. In TweakUI, on the Explorer tab, None is selected. Switching the selection to Light arrow

LOST SHORTCUT ARROW WITH TWEAK UI
I know I'm too dumb to realize that most of the desktop icons are shortcuts, but... ; ) Ed Waxman wrote: My memory is obviously failing me in my old age. The security hole *is* in shell32.dll. It's so tiny and so obscure, however, that the patch doesn't seem essential to me, and the shortcut arrows are very

The Shortcut arrow
I just added America On-Line 9.0, and it's icon doesn't have the arrow, and the desktop icon isn'ta shortcut. Why is that? I've noticed on my sisters computer (which has Windows XP) that she has desktop icons for "My Network Places" and "Control Panel" which aren't shortcuts and don't have that shortcut arrow.

Shortcut Arrow
I was told by their Tech Support that changing the drive designation to "C" would correct this. Windows however will not allow the boot drive to change. Is there anyway around this other than reinstalling the OS? (2) Remove the "shortcut arrow" from my desktop icons? I did this once, but can't for the life of me

Arrows on Desktop Shortcut Icons
Mike in So Hero VT 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 Tweak UI. Now I can't get rid of them even with Tweak UI (Ver 1.33). Please help.

TweakUI screwed up my desktop icons!
It works great and those nasty little arrows are gone. -- Steven (to reply, remove "nospam" from address) "Brad Morgan" <B...@C.com> wrote in message news:392e39d3.701109241@msnews.microsoft.com... On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 17:49:26 GMT, "Stan Gunn" <gu...@att.net> wrote: You can download the beta TweakUI 1.32.01 from my

how do I remove "shortcut to"
I also had a short cut to Alta Vista and the icon for this was "AV". These short cuts were put there automatically once I put the short cut on the desktop. Now here's my problem. Today I realized the helmet and AV icons have disappeared and instead been replaced with an Internet Explorer Icon with a little arrow

Can't get rid of shortcut arrow on desktop icons anymore
Martin Biddiscombe M.Biddisco...@ucl.ac.uk comp os ms-windows win95 moderated Rolf Mathson wrote: Is there any way to remove the "Shortcut" arrow from the desktop icons? Yep. Use TweakUI - download from microsoft site if you've not got it. Then you can have a 'normal' arrow, a 'small one' (this is my preference) or

Disappearing Shortcut Arrow icon overlay problem
In article <ugc2bukejj6...@corp.supernews.com>, "Ed Waxman" <erwaxman@NO_SPAMbigfoot. com> writes: Resizing icons doesn't work, but restoring your previous version of shell32.dll, as Mike suggested, does work. That however leaves the security flaw that replacing shell32.dll was supposed to help fix.

Can't get rid of shortcut arrow on desktop icons anymore
Jack j...@mailzone.com comp os ms-windows win95 moderated On Mon, 17 Mar 1997 11:34:18 CST, Rolf Mathson <rmath...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: Is there any way to remove the "Shortcut" arrow from the desktop icons? This is a feature of Tweakui, part of the Power Toys free download at MS' web site.

Can't get rid of shortcut arrow on desktop icons anymore
anonym...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public win95 msdosapps the arrow on a desktop icon indicates that that icon is a short cut to the particular program it is associated with. if you do not want that kind of icon on your desktop simply right click the icon and delete it. you will be deleting the icon and

Shortcut Arrow
If you make the icon smaller, less than 31 pixels tall, then the default shortcut arrow disappears. Resizing the icons to 32 pixels brings it back. I learned this in W95. Before someone pointed this out to me I came across the fact that one of the Plus (??) shortcut icon variants would appears even if the desktop