How to remove shortcut arrow from desktop icons in any type of document

By: Unknown on Tuesday, November 19, 2013

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To remove shortcut arrow from desktop icons in any type of document :

a) Perform instructions described under 'Remove shortcut arrow from desktop icons'. For your convenience, steps 1 to 3 are reported here.


b) Perform instructions described under 'Remove shortcut arrow from desktop icons (2)'. For your convenience, steps 4 and 5 are reported here.

c)And finally, do the same with conferencelink, docshortcut, internetshortcut, and wshfile.

Here is a summary of all actions :

• 1) Start regedit.
• 2) Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Inkfile.
• 3) Delete the IsShortcut registry value.
• 4) Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/piffile.
• 5) Delete the IsShortcut registry value.
• 6) Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/ConferenceLink.
• 7) Delete the IsShortcut registry value.
• 8) Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/DocShortCut.
• 9) Delete the IsShortcut registry value.
• 10) Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_Root/InternetShortcut.
• 11) Delete the IsShortcut registry value.
• 12) Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_Root//WSHFile.
• 13) Delete the IsShortcut registry value.
• 14) Close regedit.

Log Off and EnjoY !!

Note : Please note that in some cases deactivating the arrow for *.LNK files might lead to duplicate items in the Explorer Context menu.