Short cut icons

[Stubby]

How can I remove the arrow in the lower left corner of a (custom) icon?
I created a short cut icon to a dummy file so that I could edit the
icon so it displays the local machine name.

Another solution would be to edit the icon associated with a simple text
file, but I don't seem to be able to do this.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Anonymous]

Stubby formulated on Monday :

How can I remove the arrow in the lower left corner of a (custom) icon? I
created a short cut icon to a dummy file so that I could edit the icon so it
displays the local machine name.

Another solution would be to edit the icon associated with a simple text
file, but I don't seem to be able to do this.

Thanks for the help.

It is my understanding that Windows is set to alter the shortcut icons
by adding tiny arrow gif's to the lower left corner so that you can
tell shortcuts from the actual exe icons. I believe that you'd need to
"turn-off" the computer's default command that adds the arrow-gif's to
all shortcut icons in order to get your custom icon to appear as a
shortcut without an arrow.

I believe that the arrow superimposed on the shortcut icon is an
"all-or-none" situation with Windows---either all of them are turned on
(by default) or all of them are turned off...and I may be wrong about
that too.

TweakUI from
http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTTweakUI.asp
will cause Windows to delete the arrows from shortcut icons. I noticed
that TweakUI changes the following registry entry when it removes the
arrow:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Icons\29: "C:\WINNT\system32\TWEAKUI.CPL,3"

 

[Stubby]

Stubby formulated on Monday :

It is my understanding that Windows is set to alter the shortcut icons
by adding tiny arrow gif's to the lower left corner so that you can tell
shortcuts from the actual exe icons. I believe that you'd need to
"turn-off" the computer's default command that adds the arrow-gif's to
all shortcut icons in order to get your custom icon to appear as a
shortcut without an arrow.

I believe that the arrow superimposed on the shortcut icon is an
"all-or-none" situation with Windows---either all of them are turned on
(by default) or all of them are turned off...and I may be wrong about
that too.

TweakUI from
http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTTweakUI.asp
will cause Windows to delete the arrows from shortcut icons. I noticed
that TweakUI changes the following registry entry when it removes the
arrow:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Icons\29: "C:\WINNT\system32\TWEAKUI.CPL,3"

TWEAKUI is a good answer. Thanks. But I think there is value in
knowing that an icon
is a shortcut or not. So, I don't want to globally remove the arrows.
Is there a way to bind
a custom icon to a file? There's not "Change icon" button in the
properties box for a normal file.