Win8 desktop icon shortcut small arrow quick removal method

From the time I started using XP, I really didn't like the small arrow of the desktop shortcut, whether it was later vista or windows7. So I removed the shortcut small arrow by installing the optimization tool similar to Windows Optimizer, and in the latest On Windows 8, we can use a simple trick to achieve the goal.

Right-click on the desktop to create a new text file, copy the following code into it, save it as win8.bat (file type selects all files), right click "run as administrator", restart the computer. The shortcut arrow disappears.

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerShell Icons" /v 29 /d

"%systemroot%system32imageres.dll,197" /t reg_sz /f

taskkill /f /Im explorer.exe

attrib -s -r -h "%userprofile%AppDataLocaliconcache.db"

del "%userprofile%AppDataLocaliconcache.db" /f /q

start explorer

If you need to restore the small arrow, you can use the same method, the code uses the following.

reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerShell Icons" /v 29 /f

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe

attrib -s -r -h "%userprofile% AppDataLocaliconcache.db"

del "%userprofile%AppDataLocaliconcache.db" /f /q

start explorer