How to hide the blue double arrow in the upper right corner of the Win10 folder?

  

Before users asked why there are blue double arrow signs in the upper right corner of some folders in Win10 system. In fact, this is a new function of Windows10 called CompactOS. This site has been introduced before, this function can make Your hard drive holds more stuff, especially for SSDs with less capacity.

If this flag appears in the upper right corner of the file or folder, the file is stored on disk in a compressed manner. This icon is also added to Win10. If you don't want to see this icon, you can choose to disable system compression. See how to remove the blue arrow in the upper right corner of the Win10 folder. But what if you want to keep the compression turned on and don't want to see this flag? At this point, you can refer to the following method to achieve:

Note: The following methods need to modify the system registry. It is recommended to use the cleanup master in the soft media cube (click here to download) to back up the registry before the operation. Restore when an error occurs.

1, first download the transparent icon file (click here to download);

2, unzip the downloaded file, put the blank.ico file inside a folder, for example C:\\Windows\\;

3, press Win+R to open the run, enter regedit and press Enter to open the registry editor;

4, navigate to the following location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer

5. Create a subkey named Shell Icons on the left side;

6, create a name under Shell Icons (on the right) A string value of 179, set its value to the full path of the blank.ico file. The example in this article is C:\\Windows\\blank.ico.

Shell Icons subkeys and 179 key values ​​are shown below:

7, close the registry editor, log out the system and log in again to see the effect:
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