This tweak removes the shortcut arrow
- Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe
- Navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Shell Icons
- Backup the key by exporting it to a file
- In the right-pane, create a new String value named 29
- Double-click 29 and set its Value data as:
C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,50
(shell32.dll,50 is a empty icon)
- Close Registry Editor.
To apply the changes instantly, follow this
- Right-click Desktop, choose Properties
- Click the Appearance Tab.
- Click Advanced button
- Choose Icon from the drop-down list
- Set it's size to 31 and press OK, OK.
