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re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue'
Thursday, August 1, 2002 at 1:03 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Brentsen
(4 messages posted)
There are really only three places you need to concentrate on when getting rid of
shortcut arrows: piffile, lnkfile and InternetShortcut...all of which are found in
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.
piffile is for DOS shortcuts
lnkfile is for windows shortcuts
InternetShortcut...wel, that's obvious.
Deleting the IsShortcut value from the first two KEYS will present no adverse effects
and will get rid of the arrows for their respective shortcut icons.
As you found out, the last one is a little tricky. When you delete the IsShortcut
value from the InternetShortcut KEY, your favorites will seem to disappear. They
don't really disappear, they just seem to. If you navigate to your windows folder
and look inside of the favorites folder, you will see that they are there. They will
also be there when you try to access them from the menu bar in Explorer and Internet
Explorer. The only place they disappear from is the start menu - favorites folder.
A simple solution is to move your Favorites folder from the Windows folder to the
Start Menu folder. By doing this, they will show up in the top portion of tour Start
Menu rather than the bottom. Windows should automatically update the registry to
the change so that future saved favorites will go there as well, but double check
by going to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders" and "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders" and check the Favorites value to make sure that the data is the correct
path (C:\Windows\Start Menu\Favorites and %SYSTEMROOT%\Start Menu\Favorites, respectively).
Then just turn off your startmenu favorites (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
"StartMenuFavorites"="0"). Hope this helps and isn't too wordy.
On Sunday, June 23, 2002 at 12:03 pm, drybo wrote:
>I have a question about Get
>rid of Shortcut Residue:
>I deleted all registry references to IsShortcut as suggested, and lost all of my
>"favorites" along with the arrows. After restoring a backup of the registry, I got
>them back, along with the arrows. Is there a way I can edit the registry to lose
>the arrows but retain my favorites links? (Thanks, I love this site)
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