>I have a question about Get 
>rid of Shortcut Residue:

>
>Well, it's more of a solution for XP users who prefer the light arrow that used 
to 
>be provided by TweakUI...
>
>I guess I must be a little strange.  Most posters here would prefer to get rid of 
>the arrow entirely.  I like to know if an icon is a shortcut, but don't like the 
>garish shortcut arrow that Windows uses.  In 95/98, tweakui could replace it with 
>a smaller, lighter arrow and I found that exactly to my taste.
>
>Unfortunately TweakUI for XP no longer offers that option.  So I grabbed the tweakui.cpl 
> control panel applet (which has the small arrow icon within its code and used Microangelo 
>to replace XP's large arrow with the one from the tweakui.cpl file.
>
>Another way, using regedit is to navigate to
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIcons
>and change or add a value "29" with the Value data of (path to icon)/iconfile,X 
where 
>X is the icon's position in the file.  If the file itself is an icon, just use 0 
>(zero) for the X.
>
>In my case, the value data for "29" is "C:\WINDOWS\Installed System Icons\sysicon2.ico,0"
>
>Robert
>

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