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| 116551 | 2003-01-25 09:56:00 | hey all, i've had to reformat my Win98 SE system today, installed drivers, IE updates etc from Windows Update, re-booted and found that the arrows that i had removed with TweakUI on shortcuts had appeared again. I followed the instructions in the FAQ's for this problem, but to no avail. any ideas?? thanks in advance, stiven |
stiven (1952) | ||
| 116552 | 2003-01-25 10:24:00 | Hi stiven, If you don't have any qualms about making changes to your registry, follow instructions below!In #2,it seems that some versions of windows has "Inkfile"while others have"Linkfile"but whatever,it stills works! 1 . Load the System Registry Editor by opening the Start menu, choosing Run, typing "regedit," and pressing Enter . 2 . Navigate through HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT until you find the "lnkfile" entry . Note that it’s LINKFILE not INKFILE . 3 . Click to select "lnkfile" on the left pane, then select and delete the "IsShortcut" item on the right pane . 4 . You may have to restart Windows . Cheers,Kiwitas,;-) |
Kiwitas (514) | ||
| 116553 | 2003-01-25 10:40:00 | There is another more long winded way, and that is to replace the shortcut arrows in the shell32.dll file with blank icons, which is what I ended up doing. To do that though you need to be able to make blank icons. FAQ25 was a first attempt at curing this problem, but since then other methods have been derived including that described by Kiwitas. There is a discussion about all this at: members.aol.com You have to scroll down to "Patched Shell32.dll Bug +Fix" |
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