How Do You Change The Desktop Shortcut Arrow On Vista?
For those who are interested in making customizations to the appearance of the Windows desktop, the large arrows that appear in the corners of shortcut icons may be considered a detriment to the overall look and feel of the interface. In Windows Vista, the shortcut arrow is actually an overlay placed on top of the original icon. The reference to that overlay can be changed so that it references something else, such as a transparent icon if you want to remove the arrow, or a more stylized image designed by yourself or another graphic artist. Download the transparent shortcut icon, “noarrow.ico” from ComputerPerformance.co.uk and save it to the “C:\Windows” directory. Press the Windows logo and “R” keys simultaneously and type “regedit” without quotation marks in the box that appears. Press “Enter” to launch the registry editor. Use the folder structure on the left side of the registry editor window to navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,” “SOFTWARE,” “Microsoft,” “Windows,” “CurrentVersion”
