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re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows'
Saturday, August 10, 2002 at 4:05 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Brentsen
(4 messages posted)
I didn't read the step-by-step instructions on this on, but I've done it many times.
For this particular tweak, a mere refresh won't work. As a matter of fact, strange
as it sounds, even rebooting doesn't show the change. The change will not take effect
until the current icon cache has been deleted and rebuilt. You will need to either
delete it yourself (after you've gotten rid of the IsShortcut values in the registry),
or do a complete shutdown and cold boot. To delete it yourself, look for a file called
ShellIconCache (hidden file) in your windows directory. Rename it if you want to
be safe and the refresh or reboot. Windows will rebuild the icon cache and the pesky
arrows should be gone.
On Saturday, April 27, 2002 at 2:54 pm, JAM wrote:
>I followed the steps/instructions to remove the "black arrow in a white box"
>in all my Desktop Icons in Windows 98. I hate the darned arrows and
>I hate Windows.
>
>I went into REGEDIT.EXE, then to FIND, typed "IsShortcut", then
>removed/deleted all "IsShortcut" references by using FIND NEXT (F3).
>
>But when I followed the REFRESH (F5) step, nothing happened; the arrows
>would not go away.
>
>So I tried again with TWEAK UI, went into the EXPLORER Tab, to the
>SHORTCUT OVERLAY section, first selecting "LIGHT ARROW", then inmediately
>selected "NONE" (as in: NO arrow), then hit APPLY, and by golly the
>darned arrows dissapeared from all the Desktop Icons.
>
>I want to say here that I have had NO arrows in my Desktop Icons since
>1998 when I first used TWEAK UI. But recently, I went into Microsoft's
>UPDATE page and downloaded a CRITICAL UPDATE. After this CRITICAL
>UPDATE installed itself, all the arrows came back, and TWEAK UI could
>not remove them as before.
>I do not know WHAT was done to my system by this CRITICAL UPDATE,
>and in fact, everytime I download something from Microsoft Update site,
>SOMETHING ALWAYS GETS SCREWED UP IN MY SYSTEM, so THAT'S IT.
>No more "critical updates", I don't trust Microsoft anymore.
>I have DELETED EVERY REFERENCE TO MICROSOFT WINDOWS UPDATE.
>Enough is Enough.
>
>All I wish now is for a different company, a decent company, to come
>forth with a new graphic OS to finally erradicate Microsoft off the face
>of the earth. I mean, those people at Microsoft are so conceited and
>arrogant, once they SELL their software, they don't give a damm about
>ANY OF US USERS. So just IGNORE Microsoft, they're digging their own
>hole anyway. Word gets around Billy Boy.
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