Win7 shortcut small arrow how to remove

When installing software on Windows, a corresponding shortcut icon is usually created on the desktop, and there is a small arrow with a quick indication. From Windows 98, many people will use various methods to remove it, optimize and beautify the tools. Most of the software also provides the option to remove the small arrow of the shortcut icon, which is actually achieved by modifying the registry option.

































Small arrows show you to bother your pure desktop. We also said above, in fact, there are many ways to solve this problem, but we will introduce the removal method, or use the registry modification method, which is also used in the previous version of Windows, and then review it again.
1. Start the Registry Editor (Start -> Run -> Enter regedit), and then expand the following branch: "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTlnkfile";
2. Delete "ldkfile" in the sub-item "IsShortcut" ; string value item, because the "IsShortcut" item is used to control whether to display the small arrows in the normal application and data file shortcuts.
3. Then expand the following branches: "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTpiffile" and
4. Delete “piffile”"IsShortcut" in the sub-item, the IsShortcut value item is used to control whether to display the small arrow of the MS_DOS program shortcut
5. Exit the registry editor and restart the EXPLORER.EXE process.