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re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue'
Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 3:29 pm
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Posted by Paul D (2162 messages posted)


Ray, this is probably the most discussed topic here in recent times. I assume that when you say Tweak, you mean TweakUI.

A recent Windows Critical Update negated the hack that TweakUI performs. You can be assured that removing the registry entries was what fixed your annoyance, not re-running TweakUI. (let's face it, it's not a problem, it's merely an annoyance to some, and a pretty trivial one at that)

Possibly there was a reboot somewhere in the sequence of events that you didn't take into account.

That entire article needs to be updated because of this, but I'll be surprised if that happens - they're probably too busy with XP annoyances.


Paul D





On Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 7:48 am, Ray wrote:
>I have a computer running Win98SE on which shortcut arrows reappeared on desktop icons after having been turned off by Tweak. I could not remove these with Tweak by itself, and I could not remove them by removing all registry references to IsShortcut.
However, after removing the registry IsShortcut references, I ran Tweak again and was able to remove the shortcut arrows. Perhaps you should include a comment about this on the Get rid of shortcut residue article.


Written in response to:
Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (Ray: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 7:48 am)

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*re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (Michael: Saturday, February 21, 2004 at 5:16 pm)

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-Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (Ray: Wed, May 15, 2002, 7:48 am)
-re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (Paul D: Wed, May 15, 2002, 3:29 pm)
*re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (Michael: Sat, Feb 21, 2004, 5:16 pm)
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