reghakr
Essential Member
Those little arrows on the desktop shortcut icons. They serve no purpose whatsoever.
What's really useless is the fact Windows still creates shortcuts with the -shortcut after the name of the program
Those little arrows on the desktop shortcut icons. They serve no purpose whatsoever.
Actually you can do it with Registry tweaks -- I can't remember the exact procedure but this cropped up on a BartPE Forum (this is where you can create the equivalent of a "Windows Live CD" which runs totally from RAM -(default "X" drive) . This is often used as a recovery / emergency boot disk. Have a look at the "XPE" plugins and you'll see issues about removing the little arrows on the short cuts.Frameworkx FxVisor (both 32 and 64 bit versions) will allow you to remove the little shortcut arrows. Program was originally written for Vista but works fine in 7.
Actually you can do it with Registry tweaks -- I can't remember the exact procedure but this cropped up on a BartPE Forum (this is where you can create the equivalent of a "Windows Live CD" which runs totally from RAM -(default "X" drive) . This is often used as a recovery / emergency boot disk. Have a look at the "XPE" plugins and you'll see issues about removing the little arrows on the short cuts.
Doesn't bother me however but I just remember this stuff from creating some Bartpe Disks in the past.
Cheers
jimbo
And I should have all my clients and family members go futzing in their registry's ? I think NOT!
This should be built into the operating system nice little user friendly messages and NOT crap like "Keyboard not found. Press any key to continue ..."
My point is that the state of error reporting even in Windows 7 is dismal at best and needs a SERIOUS overhaul.
What's really useless is the fact Windows still creates shortcuts with the -shortcut after the name of the program
Here's the fix:
Here's a registry hack to eliminate the -shortcut which is created when you create a shortcut:
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer]
"link"=hex:00,00,00,00
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Make sure the word CurrentVersion does not have a space between it.
It should read CurrentVersion ,not Curre ntVersion. This forum wraps for some reason.
Copy and paste the the info inside the lines into Notepad, choose Save As, then select All Files from the drop-down menu box and type in removeshortcut.reg. Save it to your desktop and double-click on it to merge it intro the registry.
You'll need to restart for it to take effect. You'll still see the -shortcut on ones you've already created, but any shortcuts created after the registry hack will simply display the name