re: The little arrows are back to stay
Sunday, September 8, 2002 at 6:27 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Chuck
(2 messages posted)
The Final Fix.
Like many of you, I am always annoyed by the shortcut arrows, and for whatever reasons,
the abovementioned fixes do not work for everyone. I made some registry edits and
got rid of the arrows only to find that any NEW shortcuts had the arrows again!
IsShortcut is null, likewise .lnkfile and .piffile fixes are already in place.
The nasty arrows are back on three new shortcuts I've made.
This fix requires the use of an Icon editor like Axicons, Microangelo, etc... any
editor that will allow you to view and edit .dll files. Jump out to a MSDOS window
and copy shell32.dll to shell3X.dll or some name you will remember with a .dll extension
(you can't rename it because windows constantly uses this file.) Open your icon
editor and load shell3X.dll. The icon overlays are in position 30, both formats,
the little arrow and big one. Set your brush or paint bucket to your transparent
color and obliterate the arrows in both formats. (make sure to get all the white)
What you are doing is making a blank, transparent overlay that the system will use
for shortcuts. Save your work and exit the program. You can't edit the original
shell32.dll because, as before, windows is using it constantly.
Now you need to get rid of windows. Boot to MSDOS mode. (START, SHUTDOWN, RESTART
IN MSDOS MODE). When the system comes up, you should be in C:\WINDOWS. Change
dir to system, (CD SYSTEM) and type
REN SHELL32.DLL SHELL32.OLD [enter]
REN SHELL3X.DLL SHELL32.DLL [enter]
CD ..[enter]
win [enter] ------------------------
The little arrows are gone!
You may also just power off from MSDOS mode and then restart-- or as soon as windows
does come up, do another restart as the win command may not load all of your normal
drivers.
Hope this helps. I know it was driving me crazy!
One other small change I made that I'm not sure is necessary is to change the file
date and time on shell3X.dll to the same as your shell32.dll. Any decent file manager
can usually make this "touch".
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