How to remove or modify the ugly arrows from the shortcut icons?

 "No one knows it is a shortcut on your desktop"

  Arrows from the shortcut icons can be removed by two ways :
-Using an application (Vista Shortcut Manager).
-Another by creating some keys in  registry editor(manually).





-----Using an application 
-There are various applications using which we can remove and modify the shortcuts. 
-Vista Shortcut Manager is one of the application  using which we can remove or modify the shortcut arrows.

 

-This application is easy to use. Just open this application choose what you want to do.
-After selecting the desired option. Click on apply.
-Restart the computer settings will be applied.

It also works on Windows 7



-----Doing Manually
-Click on start button.
-Type regedit. or  go to run and type regedit.
-Navigate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Current Version>Explorer>Shell icons.
-Create a new string value under this key by right clicking and name it as 29
-Set its value to C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,52
-Close the Registry editor, and restart your computer for changes to take effect

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