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Thread ID: 36216	2003-08-03 04:25:00	Those dratted shortcut arrows again.......	Terry Porritt (14)	Press F1

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164865	2003-08-03 04:25:00	Thought I'd drag myself into 2003, and update IE from 5.5 to 6 SP1 from the PC World CD plus the latest patches on my Win98SE computers. Guess what? Those shortcut arrows that TweakUI wont remove are back. This is a bug that MS have not bothered to resolve. To fix this problem the shell32.dll file has to be hacked into, and the shortcut arrow in there replaced with a transparent icon. It's easy to do with the right tools, a hex editor, and an icon maker that allows transparent icons (not a plain white or coloured background) to be made. I already had these from the last time round. The general method is outlined on Axels site, look for Patched Shell32.dll Bug + Fix, or click here (members.aol.com)	Terry Porritt (14)
164866	2003-08-03 05:06:00	If you put a sticky label over each icon, you could draw whatever you want on them. :D	Graham L (2)
164867	2003-08-03 05:48:00	I used to use Typex on the screen :)	Terry Porritt (14)
164868	2003-08-03 06:12:00	> I used to use Typex on the screen Is that better than the Twink that I use? :p :D Actually I like those shortcut arrows -- they prevent me deleting files and folders that I thought were just shortcuts. Especially handy when one is in the habit of using the Shift key along with the Delete button....	Susan B (19)
164869	2003-08-03 06:18:00	> > I used to use Typex on the screen > > Is that better than the Twink that I use? :p :D I always imagined you to be a twink-on-screen kinda gal, Susan! > Actually I like those shortcut arrows -- they prevent > me deleting files and folders that I thought were > just shortcuts. Especially handy when one is in the > habit of using the Shift key along with the Delete > button.... I wonder how many people actually put whole folders and files on their desktop... On my desktop, apart from the system folders (which I guess are still shortcuts of a sort), there is only one non-shortcut on my desktop :) And that's just a text file I put there yesterday containing something I need to remember. Mike.	Mike (15)
164870	2003-08-03 06:28:00	Twink is messy Susan, Typex you just rub the back of the paper and the white comes off as a very thin layer instead of the globby lumps of Twink :)	Terry Porritt (14)
164871	2003-08-03 06:29:00	> I always imagined you to be a twink-on-screen kinda gal, Susan! Oh, thanks Mike!! I'll take that as a compliment... :p :D > I wonder how many people actually put whole folders and files on their desktop... I do it only rarely... when I have downloaded drivers or something and need them handy. That is why I need the shortcut arrow identification, because I am used to the few desktop icons that I have being shortcuts and not files/folders. :-)	Susan B (19)
164872	2003-08-03 06:31:00	If you want to confuse the heck out of someone using XP, try this ... Make a screenshot of the desktop with the icons showing. Size it so that is a little bit bigger than 1024x768 pixels (this is so the task bar in the image will be hidden underneath the real task bar). Set it as wallpaper. Right click on the desktop and remove the tick from beside "show desktop icons". Then watch them trying to access their desktop icons. :D	Jen C (20)
164873	2003-08-03 06:37:00	> If you want to confuse the heck out of someone using > XP, try this ... > > Make a screenshot of the desktop with the icons > showing. Size it so that is a little bit bigger than > 1024x768 pixels (this is so the task bar in the image > will be hidden underneath the real task bar). Set it > as wallpaper. Right click on the desktop and remove > the tick from beside "show desktop icons". Then > watch them trying to access their desktop icons. :D Oh I've done worse than that before, Jen! What I did was similar (although having to play around with the image size was never an issue), but first I took a screenshot, set it as wallpaper, moved the icons over some (clicked on Line up icons so they were where Windows would place them), and took another screen shot... continued this process until the whole desktop was covered in icons. Then I'd randomly select one of the fake "icons" and put the real one over it, and click Line up icons again and believe me you wouldn't know the difference :) and when you tried to click on an icon you had to try half of them before you got the real icon :) Of course I didn't do this at home... no, I did it at Polytech through my computer classes (I usually got bored in my computer classes LOL) then logged out and left the poor guy/gal in the NEXT class to try to figure out what went wrong :D Mike.	Mike (15)
164874	2003-08-03 06:40:00	> Of course I didn't do this at home... no, I did it at > Polytech through my computer classes (I usually got > bored in my computer classes LOL) then logged out and > left the poor guy/gal in the NEXT class to try to > figure out what went wrong :D > > Mike. Evil Man! :^O :D	Jen C (20)
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