Remove shortcut arrows from your desktop icons

If you want to remove the arrows in Windows XP from your desktop icons you’ll need to take the following steps.

• Go to start.
• Select Run
• And Type in regedit and click OK

Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile

Delete the IsShortcut registry value

Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\piffile

Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ConferenceLink

Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DocShortCut

Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\InternetShortcut

Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WSHFile

Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

• Now close down your registry editor and reboot your system and all your icons are arrow free.

Do note that in some cases deactivating the arrow for *.LNK files might lead to duplicate items in the Explorer Context menu.