re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue'
Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 2:35 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ian
(4 messages posted)
Hi, I'm new entry to this issue. I updated my system witht he same Critical Update
and it will not allow me to modify the appearance or remove the arrows through TweakIU
or any other program. I do not want to eliminate the arrows completely but would
like to be able to modify them. Any ideas. Would uninstalling the Critical Update
do the trick?
Thanks.
On Thursday, August 1, 2002 at 1:03 pm, Brentsen wrote:
>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.
>
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