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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