re: Get rid of "Shortcut to" prefix without TweakUI
Sunday, August 2, 2009 at 9:30 am
Posted by Ricer46
(23825 messages posted)
Answers without questions are rather worthless here, before posting in a forum, look
to see how it works.
No one will ever find this message after a few days.
On Sunday, August 2, 2009 at 9:01 am, Denis Howe wrote:
>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.
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