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re: Argh!! I just want the stupid arrows to GO AWAY!
Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 3:15 pm
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Posted by gr8grfx (1 messages posted)

According to the website "Windows XP A to Z": Open regedit. Under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile you'll find "IsShortcut registry value." Delete it. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\piffile and delete the IsShortcut registry value. Your system may have to be restarted. Sometimes deactivating the arrow for *.LNK files might cause duplicate items in the Explorer Context menu. There is some contention on whether or not this method will crash the system. I tried it on mine (Server 2003 R2) and it worked fine, but back up your registry (or set a restore point, or make sure you've got a PE ready with an offline hive editor ready) just in case. Another suggested method (which I haven't tried) is to go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTInternetShortcut and delete the IsShortcut registry value.

Written in response to:: re: Argh!! I just want the stupid arrows to GO AWAY! (Roman Hanjiev: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 1:42 pm)

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Solution for WinXP remove 'Shortcut To' (Tien Chi: Tue, Feb 8, 2005, 8:23 am)

re: Solution for WinXP remove 'Shortcut To' (werner: Tue, Feb 8, 2005, 10:55 am)

re: Solution for WinXP remove 'Shortcut To' (Tien Chi: Tue, Feb 8, 2005, 11:21 pm)

re: Solution for WinXP remove 'Shortcut To' (werner: Wed, Feb 9, 2005, 9:59 am)

re: Solution for WinXP remove 'Shortcut To' (Tien Chi: Wed, Feb 9, 2005, 10:29 am)

re: Solution for WinXP remove 'Shortcut To' (Bacch: Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 1:01 pm)

re: Solution for WinXP remove 'Shortcut To' (Donald Nichols: Sat, Dec 3, 2005, 11:13 am)

Argh!! I just want the stupid arrows to GO AWAY! (Lynne: Fri, Dec 23, 2005, 6:07 pm)

re: Argh!! I just want the stupid arrows to GO AWAY! (Roman Hanjiev: Tue, Jan 10, 2006, 1:42 pm)

re: Argh!! I just want the stupid arrows to GO AWAY! (gr8grfx: Wed, May 9, 2007, 3:15 pm)

re: Argh!! I just want the stupid arrows to GO AWAY! (Marc Erickson: Sat, Dec 1, 2007, 3:27 am)

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