re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows'
Monday, April 4, 2005 at 6:50 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by grrwood
(1 messages posted)
the most stable operating system on the market is not made by apple its made by frushtrated
people like you and me. tired of microsoft and the updates. do your self a favor
look into mandrake linux or red hat linux. save your self the hastle. also with
linux you get about 15,000 dollars worth of free software for free. every thing
you can do at work and do at home i can do on linux. writing, guitar pro, games,
internet. linux has got it all and you can stop worring about every day virus updates.
well hope this helps.
latter,
grrwood
On Saturday, April 27, 2002 at 2:54 pm, CrookedRain 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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