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| Thread ID: 134538 | 2013-07-11 12:59:00 | Odd shortcut icon problem | Jayess64 (8703) | Press F1 |
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| 1348667 | 2013-07-11 12:59:00 | I am afraid this might turn out to be one of those dumb questions, but here goes... I have just replaced the system (C) drive in my desktop PC. I used Acronis True Image 2013 to clone the old drive to the new and everything went fine. After I removed the old drive, Windows 7 fired up and everything was there, and I was one happy chappy. But... I keep a number of application (i.e. xxx.exe) shortcuts on the desktop and also several document shortcuts (e.g. ddd.xls). All of the application shortcuts have lost the little arrow they used to have on the icon, while all the document shortcuts have kept their arrows. If I make a new application shortcut, there is no arrow, but if I make a new document shortcut, it has the arrow. In one sense there is no real problem - clicking the icons opens the application or document exactly as they should. But something is changed and I don't know what, which makes me rather nervous, and anyway, arrow-less shortcuts can be a bit dangerous. I have tried deleting and rebuilding the IconCache file, I have run sfc /scannow and found nothing untoward. I even downloaded a free-ware icon management application - I could change the document shortcut arrows, but couldn't make any difference to the application shortcuts. The only clue I have is that the applications are on a different physical disk to the documents, but so what? Somewhere in Windows is a setting where you can switch the shortcut arrows on or off, but I'm darned if I can find it, and I don't even know if it will solve the problem. Can anyone tell me what's going on? |
Jayess64 (8703) | ||
| 1348668 | 2013-07-11 20:32:00 | There is a registry setting that puts the shortcut arrow. Try one of the updated versions of TweakUI www.zdnet.com neosmart.net |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 1348669 | 2013-07-11 23:48:00 | There is a registry setting that puts the shortcut arrow. Try one of the updated versions of TweakUI www.zdnet.com neosmart.net Thanks for the suggestions, but I see the zdnet TweakUI specifically states it's for Win 8, so is it OK on Win 7? The Neosmart version crashed with an error when I ran it. The Neosmart webpage I downloaded it from was dated 2005, which is well pre-Win 7. |
Jayess64 (8703) | ||
| 1348670 | 2013-07-12 04:03:00 | TweakUI XP works (mostly) with Windows 7. Otherwise you can play the registry directly www.pctools.com |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 1348671 | 2013-07-12 10:05:00 | Well, when I started this thread I was aware that it could turn out to be a dumb question - I might have been right. The system drive cloning that I thought was responsible turns out to be quite irrelevant. I have been using the free version of Stardock's Fences to organise the icons on my desktop, and the day before I cloned the drive I upgraded to Fences 2.0, paying $US9.99 for the privilege. Fences took a snapshot of the desktop when the new version installed. The next day I installed the new system drive. I have just taken a look at that initial snapshot, and all the application shortcuts have no arrow on the icons, but all the document shortcuts have the arrow - precisely the situation that puzzled me. It would appear that Fences 2.0 for some reason suppresses the arrow on application shortcuts, although there is no mention of this in the description of the software, nor on the Stardock website, nor have I found a toggle for switching it on and off. It hardly matters, really. So, thanks to kingdragonfly for trying to help me out, and my apologies for wasting your time. From now on I am resolved that, when something appears on my monitor screen, I will LOOK at it. |
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