how do I remove "shortcut to"

[stevemiller]

I want to remove all the "shortcut to"s from beneath the
desktop icons. Manually renaming often makes the icon
nonfunctional. I vaguely remember seeing a tweak for this
somewhere and have tried kelly's korner and tweak UI with
no luck. A google search returned tons of tweaks for
removing the shortcut arrow from the icons but none for
removing the words "shortcut to" under the icon. This is
bothersome because the title of the application is often
not showing or some of it shows then ends in three dots.
(...)

 

[Rocket J. Squirrel]

That setting is indeed in TweakUI for XP. Look under the settings for
Explorer (in the left column.)

Rocky

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
I want to remove all the "shortcut to"s from beneath the
desktop icons. Manually renaming often makes the icon
nonfunctional. I vaguely remember seeing a tweak for this
somewhere and have tried kelly's korner and tweak UI with
no luck. A google search returned tons of tweaks for
removing the shortcut arrow from the icons but none for
removing the words "shortcut to" under the icon. This is
bothersome because the title of the application is often
not showing or some of it shows then ends in three dots.
(...)
.
I just right click on the icon click rename click in the

box to get it to turn white from blue put the curser at
the end of shotcut,and backspace till it's gone,then
click outside the box and it's changed BINGO !

 

[stevemiller]

Thanks... Both ideas seem to be working though I had to
first check the box in Tweak UI/ Explorer "prefix shortcut
to new shortcuts on the desktop", apply the setting then
uncheck the box and apply and log off before it would stop
adding "shortcut to" a new shortcut. The icons
with "shortcut to" already in place I am editing (renaming)
with good luck so far. I recall once trying to delete that
prefix from some shortcuts and windows could no longer
find the file associated with it. Maybe I deleted more
than I should have or it was a freak error.

Thanks again...

 

[David Candy]

If you had of renamed the shortcuts as you created them the fifth one would have realised you didn't want Shortcut To anymore.