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re: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows'
Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 7:32 am
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Posted by Meg Pixel (1 messages posted)

To Get rid of annoying Icon Arrows on shortcuts: 1-Download TuneUp7 2-Click open TuneUp Styler2 3-Where it says "Shortcut Overlay" remove check from box then click apply and ok Arrows are gone!

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.

Written in response to:: Comment about 'Getting rid of Icon Arrows' (CrookedRain: Saturday, April 27, 2002 at 2:54 pm)

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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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