LKBEN10884: How to delete the shortcuts link-arrows under Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008

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LKB | Created: 02/04/2020 | Version: 1 | Language: EN | Rating: 0 | Outdated: False | Marked for deletion: False

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Latest update: 05/10/2020 | Comment:

Symptom

You want to change the view of the shotcuts

Cause

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Solution

Note: You dont have to delete the link-arrow. You should make them transparend

Steps:

  1. Open the registry (regedit.exe)
  2. navigate to: "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Schell Icons"
  3. Create an entry "29" (REG_SZ) with the value "C:\Windows\system32\imageres.dll.-119"
  4. Reboot the system

Thats all

About the Author

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux in different European countries and different European languages. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform where he is one of the most important contributors and the main developer.

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