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re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows'
Saturday, October 26, 2002 at 2:27 pm
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Posted by Jean (6 messages posted)

That worked on my Win 98 SE system !! Thanks ;-)

On Saturday, August 10, 2002 at 4:05 am, Brent Jensen wrote:
>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.
>
>

Written in response to:: re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (Brentsen: Saturday, August 10, 2002 at 4:05 am)

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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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