2nd time posting this message, ironic that annoyances.org can be annoying, go figure.

Ok this will be short and sweet now that I have to post this again.

XP Pro (full admin rights) you can use all options that TweakUI has, including different 
shortcut arrows and none at all and even custom(icon creation software required).

XP Pro (limited users, guest users, and even power users) cannot access this feature 
in TweakUI.

TweakUI was not really built for XP Home, it works on there, but you still cannot 
use it's full capabilities.

Hope this helps some people out there as to why they can't get that annoying shortcut 
arrow to disappear. 

  





On Friday, October 4, 2002 at 9:03 am, Robert Wallace wrote:
>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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