Get rid of "Shortcut to" prefix without TweakUI Sunday, August 2, 2009 at 9:01 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Denis Howe (1 messages posted) To stop Windows Explorer adding the prefix "Shortcut to" whenever you create a shortcut, in RegEdit, go to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer" and set "link" to binary "00 00 00 00" and then, _before creating any shortcuts_, restart Explorer, either by logging out or killing and restarting it from Task Manager. My Theory: the first byte of the "link" value seems to be a count which Explorer loads when it starts and writes the next larger integer to each time you create a shortcut. If it's zero when Explorer starts then it stays zero. Zeroing it while Explorer is running doesn't work because Explorer will overwrite it from its in-memory value. http://foldoc.org/ Responses to this message: re: Get rid of "Shortcut to" prefix without TweakUI (Ricer46: Sunday, August 2, 2009 at 9:30 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Get rid of "Shortcut to" prefix without TweakUI (Denis Howe: Sun, Aug 2, 2009, 9:01 am) re: Get rid of "Shortcut to" prefix without TweakUI (Ricer46: Sun, Aug 2, 2009, 9:30 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum