Restarted and Windows 7 desktop icons are now partially obscured by what looks to be some kind of 'preview' page, or something (small page-like display at lower left corner of icon with a dog-ear on the top right).
What happened and how do I get rid of these...it's annoying the %$#@* out of me!
It does sound to me that your original registry mod was accidentally pointing to an icon location,,, where there was no icon.
I used to drop the Blank.ico in C:\Windows where it wouldn't get disturbed (by me!). I'd then merge this as a .reg file into the registry
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons]
"29"="C:\\WINDOWS\\Blank.ico"
And this would undo the above.
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons]
"29"=-
I'm also attaching the Blank.ico I've always used in case you would like to try again to remove the shortcut arrow. It is in fact not blank so doesn't leave you with the dreaded "Black square overlay"