That value you are changing used to be 15 (now is 30) and every time you
created a shortcut, then renamed it straight away removing Shortcut To, it
would subtract 5 from the 15. When it got to 0 it no longer prefix Shortcut
To to a new shortcut. Hopefully this sort of crap, secret and non
predictable behaviour, is now dead.
While being automated seems gone, setting the value to 0 does work. Look in
the registry as if you stuffed up the file it won't change but still appears
it worked.
Mike said:
Keith Miller MVP said:
Save the text between the lines as a .reg file. Then merge the file.
-------------------------------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"link"=hex:00,00,00,00
Doesn't work for me!! Even after I rebooted, still get the Shortcut in the
name.