tamaracing.blogg.se - Windows remove shortcut arrow

May or may not have to reboot I forget.

Double click the String Value 29 you just created and give it the following value data: %windir%\System32\shell32.dll,-50.

In the right pane, right click on the empty space, hover over New, and click String Value. Name it Shell Icons and click enter or whatever to create it.

Right click on the Explorer folder, hover over New, then click Key.

In the regedit program, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer.

Type regedit in the Windows search bar and select regedit at the top of the list.

Part 1 - Remove arrows once (will break on reboot or re-login) How to remove arrows from desktop icons in Windows 10 without getting black squares?

I *really* don't want to use any 3rd party software for this - given that they'll use the same methods I use it will just keep corrupting anyway no? Anyone have any advice? Modified the value to use %windir% instead of the full path ico to the windows system32 folder and had the value point to that ico in a random folder outside the user or windows directories and had the value point to that, this was just a fully blank 32x32 image created in gimp Added a key to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons Sometimes it works, and the icon is just gone, but it's 50/50 (actually 75/25) whether the black squares come back after a reboot. I've been trying to get rid of the shortcut arrow icons for over 2 weeks now and no matter what I do they keep corrupting to a black square.