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re: The little arrows are back to stay
Friday, March 8, 2002 at 11:30 am
Posted by Larry
(77 messages posted)
Guess I would first try using the 'rebuild icons' in
Tweak's repair tab.
If no go, I believe setting an icon size of 30 or less eliminates these
(under 'appearance' tab, in 'display' properties).
Another possibility: check a couple registry locations.
However, you before make any changes, BACKUP your registry first!
Start>Run and type REGEDIT and press enter.
Navigate down to the following keys and see if any
values are stored in 'IsShortcut'. If they have values,
delete the values.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\piffile
Close REGEDIT; you may need to restart.
On Friday, March 8, 2002 at 10:53 am, Laura wrote:
>I have a question about I
>used Tweak UI to get rid of the little arrows on my icons, now they are back and
>Tweak UI won't do anything to get rid of them again, what do I do?:
>
>
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re: The little arrows are back to stay
Friday, March 8, 2002 at 12:19 pm
Posted by Thomas
(3 messages posted)
Mine are also back, even with Tweak telling the computer to eliminate them.
Just happened today when I downloaded a new critical update from MS for Win 98.
Haven't edited the registry yet, but am going to try on Monday and do the recommended
fixes to get rid of the shortcut arrow.
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re: The little arrows are back to stay
Friday, March 8, 2002 at 1:09 pm
Posted by Larry
(77 messages posted)
These were just some ideas to consider; just remember to always
backup
your registry before making any changes to it.
On Friday, March 8, 2002 at 12:19 pm, Thomas wrote:
>Mine are also back, even with Tweak telling the computer to eliminate them.
>
>Just happened today when I downloaded a new critical update from MS for Win 98.
>
>Haven't edited the registry yet, but am going to try on Monday and do the recommended
>fixes to get rid of the shortcut arrow.
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re: The little arrows are back to stay
Friday, March 8, 2002 at 2:54 pm
Posted by GM
(6055 messages posted)
The registry edit that Larry proposed is my favorite
Windows tweak.
It works very well ,but I would recommend that instead
of deleting the key ,just right click on it and rename
it to IsShortcutOld......
Do this in both instances (.lnkfile and .pifile) and then
close regedit and reboot.
The arrows will be gone !
Good Luck
GM
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re:What else??
Friday, March 8, 2002 at 3:27 pm
Posted by gord
(32 messages posted)
I had the same side effects after d\l that update.Thanks Larry for the remedy!
Although the icons were the obvious, it sometimes makes you wonder what else M$ slips
by!
On Friday, March 8, 2002 at 10:53 am, Laura wrote:
>I have a question about I
>used Tweak UI to get rid of the little arrows on my icons, now they are back and
>Tweak UI won't do anything to get rid of them again, what do I do?:
>
>
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re: The little arrows are back to stay
Friday, March 8, 2002 at 3:49 pm
Posted by Ron
(1 messages posted)
I have the same prob but I also have NO IsShortcut reference. Ideas?
On Friday, March 8, 2002 at 2:54 pm, Galaxy Master wrote:
>The registry edit that Larry proposed is my favorite
>Windows tweak.
>It works very well ,but I would recommend that instead
>of deleting the key ,just right click on it and rename
>it to IsShortcutOld......
>Do this in both instances (.lnkfile and .pifile) and then
>close regedit and reboot.
>The arrows will be gone !
>
>Good Luck
>
>GM
>
>
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re: The little arrows are back to stay
Saturday, March 9, 2002 at 12:47 pm
Posted by Thomas
(3 messages posted)
Did it the way GalaxyMaster recommended and renamed the 2 shortcut references with
OLD at the end and rebooted.
The arrows are gone.
Thomas
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re: The little arrows are back to stay
Monday, March 11, 2002 at 6:00 am
Posted by Laura
(2 messages posted)
Now that you mention it, I installed a critical update the day I noticed the arrows.
I tried rebuild icons, no luck there, I looked up those keys in the registry and
there was no inkfile at all. I think this may be the problem. I found the piffile
key and there were no entries under the IsShortcut key. Just "". So, what now?
Thanks in advance!!!
On Friday, March 8, 2002 at 11:30 am, Larry wrote:
>Guess I would first try using the 'rebuild icons' in
>Tweak's repair tab.
>
>If no go, I believe setting an icon size of 30 or less eliminates these
>(under 'appearance' tab, in 'display' properties).
>
>Another possibility: check a couple registry locations.
>
>However, you before make any changes, BACKUP your registry first!
>
>Start>Run and type REGEDIT and press enter.
>
>Navigate down to the following keys and see if any
>values are stored in 'IsShortcut'. If they have values,
>delete the values.
>
>
>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile
>
>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\piffile
>
>
>Close REGEDIT; you may need to restart.
>
>
>
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re: The little arrows are back to stay
Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 11:35 am
Posted by Mark
(1 messages posted)
Microsoft destroyed the best feature of TweakUI on March 7, 2002.
TweakUI>Explorer>Shortcut (Arrow) Overlay choices were rendered useless.
This problem is caused by the installation of "Windows 98 Q313829 Update" covered
in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-014, both available at the Microsoft Update website.
This update covers a problem of low risk for most home users, and I would recommend
NOT installing it, unless you don't care about icon shortcut arrows.
If you already have: The only fix that worked for me (and I tried them all) was Galaxy
Master's, since there were no values in my registry under "IsShortcut" in Larry's
fix.
I have notified Microsoft Support, so they may be able to correct and reissue this
update in the future.
One can only hope. I am surprised that Microsoft hackers didn't catch this. Maybe
that is why stocks rise and FALL!
There are now millions of ticked-off icon-shortcut-arrow-haters out there, so whoever
signs-off Microsoft security updates in the future should be thinking if they wish
to remain employed.
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re: The little arrows are back to stay
Tuesday, April 30, 2002 at 11:53 am
Posted by tchused
(1 messages posted)
On Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 11:35 am, Mark wrote:
>Microsoft destroyed the best feature of TweakUI on March 7, 2002.
>TweakUI>Explorer>Shortcut (Arrow) Overlay choices were rendered useless.
> This problem is caused by the installation of "Windows 98 Q313829 Update" covered
>in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-014, both available at the Microsoft Update
website.
>This update covers a problem of low risk for most home users, and I would recommend
>NOT installing it, unless you don't care about icon shortcut arrows.
>If you already have: The only fix that worked for me (and I tried them all) was
Galaxy
>Master's, since there were no values in my registry under "IsShortcut" in Larry's
>fix.
>I have notified Microsoft Support, so they may be able to correct and reissue this
>update in the future.
>One can only hope. I am surprised that Microsoft hackers didn't catch this. Maybe
>that is why stocks rise and FALL!
>There are now millions of ticked-off icon-shortcut-arrow-haters out there, so whoever
>signs-off Microsoft security updates in the future should be thinking if they wish
>to remain employed.
>
>
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re: The little arrows are back to stay
Monday, May 6, 2002 at 6:06 pm
Posted by Kenny
(1 messages posted)
Download windows configurator from http://www.nonags.com to get rid of the arrows,it
worked for me - here is the direct download site http://knownothing.net/freewarez/WindConf.exe
On Friday, March 8, 2002 at 10:53 am, Laura wrote:
>I have a question about I
>used Tweak UI to get rid of the little arrows on my icons, now they are back and
>Tweak UI won't do anything to get rid of them again, what do I do?:
>
>
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re: The little arrows are back to stay
Saturday, July 20, 2002 at 7:05 pm
Posted by Lee
(9 messages posted)
Kenny how do you disable the short cut overlay in Windows Conf? Can you put me threw
the steps thanks!
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re: The little arrows are back to stay
Sunday, August 11, 2002 at 6:03 am
Posted by Veronica Nunez
(7 messages posted)
Caution: Do not attempt this fix if you are not comfortable with editing the Registry.
You should backup or have recently backed up your Registry so you can restore it
in case you delete something important by accident. Okay...
Open Regedit, (Run, type regedit, ok). Click on Edit, click on Find and type IsShortcut
and delete. Go back to Edit, Find again and continue deleting all instances of it
until you've finished searching the registry. Go back to your desktop, press F5 and
Restart your PC. Presto, No more little white shortcut arrows.
On Friday, March 8, 2002 at 10:53 am, Laura wrote:
>I have a question about I
>used Tweak UI to get rid of the little arrows on my icons, now they are back and
>Tweak UI won't do anything to get rid of them again, what do I do?:
>
>
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re: The little arrows are back to stay
Sunday, September 8, 2002 at 6:27 pm
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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re: The little arrows are back to stay
Tuesday, December 24, 2002 at 9:17 am
Posted by lando
(1 messages posted)
Found this solution on the web:
In your case, what's likely to have happened is that the March 7th Critical Update
damaged a file called shell32.dll. You can restore the file from your Windows 98
CD using the System File Checker utility. To do so, type SFC in the Windows Find
menu, and select "Extract one file from installation disk." Enter the file name.
Then press start, and browse to the CD-ROM drive in the "restore from" box. Once
the file has been restored, you'll need to reboot.
Good luck.
On Friday, March 8, 2002 at 10:53 am, Laura wrote:
>I have a question about I
>used Tweak UI to get rid of the little arrows on my icons, now they are back and
>Tweak UI won't do anything to get rid of them again, what do I do?:
>
>
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re: The little arrows are back to stay
Monday, February 24, 2003 at 5:46 pm
Posted by Erin
(1 messages posted)
This thread was a godsend to me, a year later. I finally got Windows Update to work
again a few weeks ago, after an install of IE 6.0 2 years ago broke it, and then,what
happens but the horrid arrows on all my icons. So I followed the brilliant Registry
fix here and was thrilled at the visual results. However, I've found that the few
Desktop keyboard shortcuts I had, e.g. for Eudora, NetTerm, my DOS calc.exe program,
no longer work. Is there a way to fix this? How can I make new keyboard shortcuts
for these programs and not see horrible little arrows? Or must I resign myself.
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re: The little arrows are back to stay
Tuesday, April 1, 2003 at 8:58 am
Posted by jw rebel
(1 messages posted)
The problem with deleting the IsShortCut key is that the operating system uses this
to track links.
1 This tracking will not work properly anymore.
2 Any shortcut keys in a pif/lnk in your start menu don't work anymore
3 IE thinks it is not the default browser anymore
The fix with changing the iconsize in the display properties didn't do anything on
my system, except make the icons out of focus.
I think the only real solution here is to hack/edit the arrow icon overlay in shell32.dll.
On Sunday, September 8, 2002 at 6:27 pm, Chuck wrote:
>
>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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re: The little arrows are back to stay
Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at 1:28 pm
Posted by Cliff Treadway
(1 messages posted)
I use Windows 98 Second Edition (Win 98SE).
First of all I recommend you let those "IsShortcut" values alone. Doing anything
with those values can only cause you frustration and a number of headaches.
This is not a guess or assumption: When a recent update is applyed (March 2003, I've
read), an icon corruption in shell32.dll results.
To restore shell32, from the Run dialog, type sfc (for "System File Checker"). From
there follow the instructions to restore the original copy of shell32.dll from your
Windows CD-ROM (or Windows installation folder to the \WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder. After
that, restart the system. Your arrows should be gone.
If you have any build of Windows 95, you can restore the file from within DOS mode.
Hopefully you've resolved the issue by now, but good luck.
On Friday, March 8, 2002 at 11:30 am, Larry wrote:
>Guess I would first try using the 'rebuild icons' in
>Tweak's repair tab.
>
>If no go, I believe setting an icon size of 30 or less eliminates these
>(under 'appearance' tab, in 'display' properties).
>
>Another possibility: check a couple registry locations.
>
>However, you before make any changes, BACKUP your registry first!
>
>Start>Run and type REGEDIT and press enter.
>
>Navigate down to the following keys and see if any
>values are stored in 'IsShortcut'. If they have values,
>delete the values.
>
>
>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile
>
>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\piffile
>
>
>Close REGEDIT; you may need to restart.
>
>
>
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re: The little arrows are back to stay
Friday, October 10, 2003 at 10:53 am
Posted by Tony Solomon
(1 messages posted)
Thank you. That worked great. I've saved these directions, into Notepad, for future
use. :)
On Friday, March 8, 2002 at 2:54 pm, Galaxy Master wrote:
>The registry edit that Larry proposed is my favorite
>Windows tweak.
>It works very well ,but I would recommend that instead
>of deleting the key ,just right click on it and rename
>it to IsShortcutOld......
>Do this in both instances (.lnkfile and .pifile) and then
>close regedit and reboot.
>The arrows will be gone !
>
>Good Luck
>
>GM
>
>
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re: The little arrows are back to stay
Sunday, March 21, 2004 at 3:17 pm
Posted by Warrior
(2 messages posted)
I did this to kill the little arrows and now they are dead again.. THANKS!! Guess
Microsoft SCREWED UP AGAIN.. But what else is new!! Buncha high paid screw ups if
you ask me.. Thanks dude.. Try this people.. It works and easy to do rather then
edit the registry where you could really screw up. This is fail safe. Besides you
get rid of the real problem.. You also get prompted to back up the file you are about
to replace
but no real need too. The file inquestion is in your
Windows system folder. AWESOME HELP!!
Aka Warrior!!
On Tuesday, December 24, 2002 at 9:17 am, lando wrote:
>
>Found this solution on the web:
>
> In your case, what's likely to have happened is that the March 7th Critical Update
>damaged a file called shell32.dll. You can restore the file from your Windows 98
>CD using the System File Checker utility. To do so, type SFC in the Windows Find
>menu, and select "Extract one file from installation disk." Enter the file name.
>Then press start, and browse to the CD-ROM drive in the "restore from" box. Once
>the file has been restored, you'll need to reboot.
>
>Good luck.
>
>
>On Friday, March 8, 2002 at 10:53 am, Laura wrote:
>>I have a question about I
>>used Tweak UI to get rid of the little arrows on my icons, now they are back and
>>Tweak UI won't do anything to get rid of them again, what do I do?:
>>
>>
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