The shortcut icons in Windows Vista have Huge arrows on them. If you are worried about the look of your desktop, you may not want to see the ugly arrows. Currently there is no native way to remove the shortcut overlay arrow or to even customize it in Windows Vista. But now there is simple solution for that and it is called FxVisor v1.2. Windows Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover, aka FxVisor, allows you to either remove or enable the explorer shortcut overlay arrow that is added to all shortcuts.
Getting rid of the arrows on shortcuts is fairly simple by modifying the registry. You can do this by using the following procedure:
- Start the registry editor (regedit.exe)
- Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile
- Delete the entry in the right-hand pane called IsShortcut
- Close the registry editor and restart your computer for the change to take effect.
After the reboot, you’ll notice that the shortcuts that were on your desktop no longer have arrows; any new shortcuts that you create won’t have arrows, either.
If you want to perform this procedure on more than one computer, you can write a .REG file.
