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re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows'
Sunday, April 28, 2002 at 1:11 pm
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Posted by Bobstur (2225 messages posted)

If anyone's interested I think I know what actually happened so that TweakUI no longer works to remove the shortcut arrow. The March 7th, I believe it was, update, replaced the shell32.dll file with a new version. This is the file that holds the shortcut overlay icon and applies the arrow to shortcuts.

With the original shell32.dll, the addition to the registry of a Shell Icons key and pointer to another icon source for shell32.dll's #29 arrow icon would override the arrow icon. This is what TweakUI did.

Now, the new shell32.dll apparently doesn't look for the Shell Icons key, hence the arrow removal no longer works.

Bottom line, the two cures are 1) delete/rename the two IsShortcut or 2) restore the original shell32.dll file. The first choice is probably better if one assumes M$ had some valid security reason for replacing shell32.dll.

Looks like M$ had their head up their ___ on this one.

Bob Sturtevant http://home.adelphia.net/~bobstur/
Please reply in the forum and let us know.

Written in response to:
Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (CrookedRain: Saturday, April 27, 2002 at 2:54 pm)

Responses to this message:
people, you are great!! (CrookedRain: Wednesday, May 1, 2002 at 6:23 am)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (Small Potatoes: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 at 10:56 am)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (Robert Wallace: Sunday, September 8, 2002 at 9:48 am)

So, does this mean TweakUI no longer works on anything??? (BobJ: Thursday, January 8, 2004 at 12:03 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]

Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (CrookedRain: Sat, Apr 27, 2002, 2:54 pm)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (Cliff Armstrong: Sat, Apr 27, 2002, 3:44 pm)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (Tombo: Fri, Jan 28, 2005, 7:51 pm)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (Cliff Armstrong: Sat, Jan 29, 2005, 10:09 am)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (Alec Jones: Wed, Mar 2, 2005, 1:32 pm)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (Alec Jones: Wed, Mar 2, 2005, 2:22 pm)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (Mike Scirocco: Wed, Jun 6, 2007, 10:17 pm)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (Larry: Sat, Apr 27, 2002, 3:51 pm)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (Martin Goebel: Sun, Nov 17, 2002, 6:26 am)

Yes and no at once. (Nicky: Sat, Jul 19, 2003, 2:03 pm)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (janeil: Sun, Jul 27, 2003, 3:00 pm)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (phantom: Sat, Apr 27, 2002, 4:30 pm)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (chris: Wed, Feb 12, 2003, 9:00 pm)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (phantom: Thu, Feb 13, 2003, 6:01 am)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (chris: Thu, Feb 13, 2003, 2:03 pm)

Reboot ,not Refresh.... (GM: Sat, Apr 27, 2002, 4:47 pm)

Sorry to disagree, but... (Larry: Sat, Apr 27, 2002, 7:34 pm)

So GM, you do agree that.. (gord: Sat, Apr 27, 2002, 7:57 pm)

trigger happy, and.. (gord: Sat, Apr 27, 2002, 8:36 pm)

re: agree (GM: Sun, Apr 28, 2002, 6:39 am)

Give me a ****** break! (Larry: Sun, Apr 28, 2002, 11:55 am)

Let's get real here! (Paul D: Sun, Apr 28, 2002, 12:10 am)

Who said they were? (Larry: Sun, Apr 28, 2002, 12:15 pm)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (Bobstur: Sun, Apr 28, 2002, 1:11 pm)

people, you are great!! (CrookedRain: Wed, May 1, 2002, 6:23 am)

re: people, you are great!! (Gonz: Wed, Jun 12, 2002, 12:25 pm)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (Small Potatoes: Wed, Jun 26, 2002, 10:56 am)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (Lee: Sat, Jul 20, 2002, 8:42 pm)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (Small Potatoes: Sun, Jul 28, 2002, 7:30 am)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (Robert Wallace: Sun, Sep 8, 2002, 9:48 am)

So, does this mean TweakUI no longer works on anything??? (BobJ: Thu, Jan 8, 2004, 12:03 am)

re: So, does this mean TweakUI no longer works on anything??? (Bobstur: Thu, Jan 8, 2004, 3:28 am)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (Brentsen: Sat, Aug 10, 2002, 4:05 am)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (Jean: Sat, Oct 26, 2002, 2:27 pm)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (BobJ: Wed, Jan 7, 2004, 9:10 pm)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (grrwood: Mon, Apr 4, 2005, 6:50 pm)

re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (Meg Pixel: Thu, Sep 27, 2007, 7:32 am)

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