how do i start this? what and where is it? :)

start>run>regedit

it edits your registry, honsetly, if you didnt know what it did, leave it alone.

be very very careful... it can screw you upsidedown and you wont know what to do

)corjello(

start>run>regedit

it edits your registry, honsetly, if you didnt know what it did, leave it alone.

be very very careful... it can screw you upsidedown and you wont know what to do

)corjello(

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One suggestion before you edit anything make shure you back it all up first... do not edit anything or delete anything unless you are shure it will have no adverse side effects later, these may not even be apparent right away but when you start a program sometime they may emerge

Cheers,

Ryan Jones

a buddy has a registry edit to get rid of the little shortcut arrows on the icons on the desktop. his webpage has the instructions to do it, but i couldnt find regedit.

by the way, how do i make a registry backup?

TweakUI is also good for Windows too as far as I remember although it has been quite a while since I used it

Cheers,

Ryan Jones

thanks guys. whats that other one the NTREGOPT? any good?

Heres the thing i am supposed to do to get rid of the arrows. The problem is, i cant find the registry item, and i used search.

1. Start regedit.

2. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTlnkfile

3. Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

You may need to restart Windows XP.

Don't f your system :)

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/75/ - A better guide

Cheers,

Ryan Jones

To Remove the Icon:

Open your registry and delete the value named 'IsShortCut' from the keys [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile], [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\piffile] and [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\InternetShortcut].

I looked for files, and couldnt find them. any ideas? i ran right through the registry.

To Remove the Icon:

Open your registry and delete the value named 'IsShortCut' from the keys [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile], [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\piffile] and [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\InternetShortcut].

I looked for files, and couldnt find them.  any ideas?  i ran right through the registry.

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Didd you try search, search for lnkfile, piffile, InternetShortcut search for those andthendo the required edits on the results

Cheers,

Ryan Jones

I ran search. it says "Search is complete. There are no results to display". hmmmmmm.

If all you are trying to do is remove the little arrow from shortcut icons then I would use TweakUI like Ryan suggested a few posts ago, it is a much safer way to do it.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloa...ppowertoys.mspx

You might like it and use some of the other tweaks in it as well.

thanks dudes! tweakui did the trick! :)

If you delete or change the wrong thing your computer may not work anymore, to put it simply.

If all you are trying to do is remove the little arrow from shortcut icons then I would use TweakUI like Ryan suggested a few posts ago, it is a much safer way to do it.

Exactly. If you're going to clean up your reg, use Reg First Aid and Compact (see http://www.lunarsoft.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=311) - should help as well.

ok, my computer died again (i installed windows defender, and when it restarted, well, it just never did). so now i want to get rid of the little arrows in the shortcuts, and i cant remember how i did it with tweak ui! arrrrghghghgh! any suggestions?

download tweak ui, then in Tweak UI go Explorer>Shortcut, then tick "none"

hope it does the trick

)corjello(

download tweak ui, then in Tweak UI go Explorer>Shortcut, then tick "none"

hope it does the trick

)corjello(

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You rock brother! That did the trick! :P