Remove / Disable the Shortcut Arrow From Your Desktop Icons.

Posted on January 8, 2008 
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Computer Tips, Tricks, Tweaks and Tutorials - Remove / Disable the Shortcut Arrow From Your Desktop Icons.

If you have a great looking wallpaper and a nice theme to work with than you probably don’t want to see the arrows on your desktop shortcuts. They are just not the most pretty looking things to look at on your desktop.

 

This Tutorial is for Windows XP; ill post tomorrow how to do this is Windows Vista.

 

Delete-Shortcut-Arrow-pic2If you want to remove the arrows in Windows XP from your desktop icons you’ll need to take the following steps.

 

  • Go to start.
  • Select Run
  • And Type in regedit and click OK

 

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Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile

Delete the IsShortcut registry value

Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\piffile

Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ConferenceLink

Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DocShortCut

Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\InternetShortcut

Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WSHFile

Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

 

  • Now close down your registry editor and reboot your system and all your icons are arrow free.

Do note that in some cases deactivating the arrow for *.LNK files might lead to duplicate items in the Explorer Context menu.

 

Computer Tips, Tricks, Tweaks and Tutorials - Remove / Disable the Shortcut Arrow From Your Desktop Icons.I hope you liked this XP Tip and Trick, Ill be posting the Vista tutorial tomorrow which supposedly should work for Windows XP too but I haven’t tested that yet.

 

Talk to you all tomorrow.

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7 Responses to “Remove / Disable the Shortcut Arrow From Your Desktop Icons.”

  1. Danys Racicot on March 19th, 2008 7:54 pm

    I have tried your suggestions for removing the blue double arrows appearing on the foreground of windows xp desktop icons. All registry keys were deleted however upon reboot the arrows were still there. Any more suggestions.
    Thanks Danys

  2. Vincent on March 20th, 2008 12:55 pm

    This is as far as I know the only solution or way to remove the arrows in XP. I don’t know another option.

    After you rebooted and you noticed that the arrows where still there, did you check the register to see if the registry value where really gone?

  3. Mike on April 1st, 2008 5:31 am

    Wow, very nice tip! Just found this site and I love all the stuff you have here.

  4. Vincent on April 1st, 2008 8:49 am

    Hi Mike,

    Thanks that’s always good to hear, You have a great blog too.

    I’ll see you around.

  5. Adel on July 5th, 2008 3:53 pm

    There is a free programe called RegSeeker 1.55 you can download it. Its main function is cleaning the registery. A tweak function in the options of it is to remove arrows from shortcuts.
    http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
    enjoy.

  6. Christopher Hart on July 10th, 2008 11:09 pm

    The double arrow Blue rectangle on file icons is a “Backup Status Indicator” from Norton 360 and can be turned off in ‘Settings’ Menu under ‘Quick Controls’ and uncheck “Backup Status Indicators” and the blue double arrow indicators disappear from all your file and folder icons. This had me stumped for awhile and looking here for answers.

  7. Abhishek on August 6th, 2008 6:16 am

    He dudes,i know many 3rd party s/w can do this bt i want to do it myself w/o using any hactic utility.So dis trick is gr8.

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