Removing "Shortcut" word after creating a shortcut?

[nLinked]

If you create a shortcut to a program in Vista into a folder, the shortcut gets the word "- Shortcut" at the end of it. But I can already see it's a shortcut by looking at the arrow on the lower-left of its icon. Is there a way to stop it adding "Shortcut" to the end of a shortcut each time? I dislike renaming it all the time.

 

[Keith]

Good question!
However, I'd rather have it at the end than at the beginning like XP. There may be a Registry hack to remove that.

 

[Keith Miller MVP]

Save the text between the lines as a .reg file. Then merge the file.

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"link"=hex:00,00,00,00

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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

If you create a shortcut to a program in Vista into a folder, the shortcut
gets the word "- Shortcut" at the end of it. But I can already see it's a
shortcut by looking at the arrow on the lower-left of its icon. Is there a
way to stop it adding "Shortcut" to the end of a shortcut each time? I
dislike renaming it all the time.

 

[nLinked]

Thank you, Keith! It has worked! I shall keep this registry key in-case I
need it in future.

Regards,

nLinked

 

[Keith Miller MVP]

You're welcome.


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

Thank you, Keith! It has worked! I shall keep this registry key in-case I
need it in future.

Regards,

nLinked

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

-------------------------------------------------


--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

If you create a shortcut to a program in Vista into a folder, the
shortcut gets the word "- Shortcut" at the end of it. But I can already
see it's a shortcut by looking at the arrow on the lower-left of its
icon. Is there a way to stop it adding "Shortcut" to the end of a
shortcut each time? I dislike renaming it all the time.

 

[Mike]

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.

 

[Keith Miller MVP]

It doesn't change the name of existing shortcuts, just changes the naming of
new ones.

If you tried creating a new shortcut after the merge but before rebooting,
you overwrote the value.

Check it in Regedit.


--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

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.

 

[Guest]

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.

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.

 

[Mike]

It doesn't change the name of existing shortcuts, just changes the naming of
new ones.

If you tried creating a new shortcut after the merge but before rebooting,
you overwrote the value.

Check it in Regedit.

Aha! I tried before rebooting - rebooting seems to have done the trick! Thanx!

 

[Keith Miller MVP]

You're welcome. Glad it's sorted.