Comments on: How to Remove Shortcut Arrow on Icons in Windows (Include Desktop Items)

By: hsokphilly

hsokphilly — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:03:38 +0000

It worked like a charm…at first. After the 2nd reboot after the fix, the arrows came back on any webpage shortcuts. I went back to RegEdit and the IsShortcut registry value is still deleted in all 6 keys. Any ideas?

By: Mosh Jahan

Mosh Jahan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:32:11 +0000

This is not a very good method as it will break certain shortcuts in Start menu, for example, right click Computer and the Manage option will no longer work.

Better to use a tool like FxVisor.

By: Time Sheep

Time Sheep — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:58:42 +0000

Same here browner, i used the same icon for making invisible desktop icons, they just turned black…

By: sreedhav

sreedhav — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:39:30 +0000

The HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile is not there! Kindly give an alternative method to remove arrow marks on desktop icons

By: browner

browner — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:50:18 +0000

Is there a way to undo this? It just made black squares where the overlay arrows used to be. Thanks in advance.

By: Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed

Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:01:08 +0000

Great, thanks.

By: Fix Unable to Pin App to Taskbar and Start Menu (Missing Context Menu and Jump Lists) Error in Windows 7 » My Digital Life

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:08:13 +0000

[...] problem is because users have made the shortcut in Windows 7 to be ‘not a shortcut’ by removing the shortcut arrow on icons (including desktop icons) by removing IsShortcut registry [...]