Hi folks,

How do I remove the annoying (as far as I'm concerned) arrows from all shortcut icons I've created for my Windows 98SE computer?

If it requires manually modifying my Registry, I am comfortable and have no problem in doing so. I am opposed to using any external tweaking programs, so please do NOT suggest I use any of them.

Thank you.

Michael

goto display in control panel and select apperance where it says desktop click the arrow select icon and make icon smaller it should be 32, make it 30 and the arrows are gone from short cuts

FROM "Regedit.com"
To Change the Icon:
Open the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\Shell Icons] and create a new string value, or modify the existing value, called '29'. Set it to equal the filename, including path, for the icon you want to use for the shortcut arrow. By setting this to a blank icon it has a similar effect to the removal method above, without the side effects.

Restart Windows for the changes to take effect.

Note: This tweak effectively changes the properties of shortcuts so they are no longer considered to be shortcuts by Windows, this may have some slight side effects, such as hot keys not working as before.

For example, the setting may look like:

(Default) (value not set)
29 "c:\windows\system\shell32.dll,21"

Download Tweakui from , complete with install instructions .

http://www.winmag.com/help/sbs/2000/tweakui/default.htm