Shortcut indicators (little curve arrows) gone from icons

[Fred Ma]

I have little curved arrows arrows superposed on the lower
left corner of my icons on Win2K, but not on WinXP. I can
see the arrows when I do a shift-control-drag, but they are
gone when I place the link down somewhere (by releaasing
the mouse button). I also have powertoys TweakUI, which
is suppose to have a setting for activating these arrows
under the Explorer tab. But there doesn't seem to be any,
and I suppose it is because it is the XP version. Does
this problem ring a bell with anyone? I must be missing
something here, because it doesn't make sense for that
functionality to be removed from more recent OS's or
TweakUI's. Not having the arrows can lead to the deletion
of target files rather than shortcuts.

 

[Galen]

In Fred Ma <fma@REMOVE_NOSPAM.doe.carleton.ca> had this to say:

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I have little curved arrows arrows superposed on the lower
left corner of my icons on Win2K, but not on WinXP. I can
see the arrows when I do a shift-control-drag, but they are
gone when I place the link down somewhere (by releaasing
the mouse button). I also have powertoys TweakUI, which
is suppose to have a setting for activating these arrows
under the Explorer tab. But there doesn't seem to be any,
and I suppose it is because it is the XP version. Does
this problem ring a bell with anyone? I must be missing
something here, because it doesn't make sense for that
functionality to be removed from more recent OS's or
TweakUI's. Not having the arrows can lead to the deletion
of target files rather than shortcuts.

They *SHOULD* be there unless you'd used either a tweaking application or
edited the registry to make them disappear though it might be an option in
GPEDIT if I recall. Anyhow, there's a number of ways to put them back. The
easiest would be to download the trial version of X-Setup Pro from
www.x-setup.net which is a fairly decent application that used to be
freeware but now is shareware. The changes won't revert if you uninstall the
application or anything.

You are able to manually edit the registry, as I mentioned, to put them
back. Does it no longer have the "shortcut to *****" there as well?
Reversing the process here: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/arrow.htm should do
the trick for you. If not then the original idea of XSP will be your best
option in my opinion.

Galen

 

[Fred Ma]

They *SHOULD* be there unless you'd used either a tweaking application or
edited the registry to make them disappear though it might be an option in
GPEDIT if I recall. Anyhow, there's a number of ways to put them back. The
easiest would be to download the trial version of X-Setup Pro from
www.x-setup.net which is a fairly decent application that used to be
freeware but now is shareware. The changes won't revert if you uninstall the
application or anything.

You are able to manually edit the registry, as I mentioned, to put them
back. Does it no longer have the "shortcut to *****" there as well?
Reversing the process here: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/arrow.htm should do
the trick for you. If not then the original idea of XSP will be your best
option in my opinion.

Thanks for the tip, Galen. It looks like it might take some puttering
around to get it working. I'll make a to-do out of it for
when things slacken up a bit.

Fred

 

[Fred Ma]

Thanks for the tip, Galen. It looks like it might take some puttering
around to get it working. I'll make a to-do out of it for
when things slacken up a bit.

Actually, IT-dude mucked around with the registry and got the arrows
back. Yay! And as a positive side-effect, I can actually follow
links to folders when opening files from an application. Double-yay!

Thanks for responding!

Fred

 

[Kelly]

Hi Fred,

Depending on what you have done:

Run the restore on line 185 (right hand side):
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

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All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com