Author: wolf.b
Subject: solved
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 4:30 am (GMT -6)
@HerbieH:
Thank you very much for your contribution! But sadly, it did not solve my problem.
I have tried to use your blank icon to the same effect as the transparent.ico from tenforums: My system will not display any arrow differently.
@all:
I can not see the "classic" arrow, I can not see the "custom" arrow, and I don't know why that happens. To me it appears that there may be a registry setting elsewhere which prevents changes made to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Shell Icons from happening, maybe something to do with the size of displayed icons on the desktop, or maybe some group policy? There are three icon sizes to choose from in the context menu, and there are 28 different icon sizes that I can use with Ctrl+Mousewheel.
Nothing I did in the past has EVER changed the look of those arrows. I know there are ways to see transparent overlay icons with some sort of border around them, and there are those without them .... I have NEVER seen any of them displayed on my Win10. That is why I went the route of renaming the registry-key in the first place. Which apparently is needed by e.g. ShellExecute, ShellExecuteEx. And I found that there is a further problem with the missing "IsShortcut"-key: I can't pin anything to the taskbar any more...
To finish, just let me report my final attempt at this: I found WinaeroTweaker (free software) from winaero.com and tried that.
And it worked! I have no more arrows overlayed on my desktop icons. All 28 sizes of icons are fine, I have even seen the "classic" arrows for the first time on my desktop.
Afterwards, I have renamed the "xIsShortcut" registry key back to "IsSortcut", I even deleted the "29" key from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Shell Icons.
TC is now happily using lnk-files, I still can pin stuff to the taskbar, no arrows on my desktop, perfect.
I don't know yet which keys are changed by WinaeroTweaker, but I can tell the "29" key is not needed, I have no more "29" key. That never changed anything for me on my system anyway. If I find out where the problem originally was, I will post that here.
Thanks to all of you for your time and your support, I highly appreciate it.
Subject: solved
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 4:30 am (GMT -6)
| HerbieH wrote: |
| I may have found a solution. Just use a blank 32x32 16 color icon as a shortcut arrow. |
@HerbieH:
Thank you very much for your contribution! But sadly, it did not solve my problem.
I have tried to use your blank icon to the same effect as the transparent.ico from tenforums: My system will not display any arrow differently.
@all:
I can not see the "classic" arrow, I can not see the "custom" arrow, and I don't know why that happens. To me it appears that there may be a registry setting elsewhere which prevents changes made to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Shell Icons from happening, maybe something to do with the size of displayed icons on the desktop, or maybe some group policy? There are three icon sizes to choose from in the context menu, and there are 28 different icon sizes that I can use with Ctrl+Mousewheel.
Nothing I did in the past has EVER changed the look of those arrows. I know there are ways to see transparent overlay icons with some sort of border around them, and there are those without them .... I have NEVER seen any of them displayed on my Win10. That is why I went the route of renaming the registry-key in the first place. Which apparently is needed by e.g. ShellExecute, ShellExecuteEx. And I found that there is a further problem with the missing "IsShortcut"-key: I can't pin anything to the taskbar any more...
To finish, just let me report my final attempt at this: I found WinaeroTweaker (free software) from winaero.com and tried that.
And it worked! I have no more arrows overlayed on my desktop icons. All 28 sizes of icons are fine, I have even seen the "classic" arrows for the first time on my desktop.
Afterwards, I have renamed the "xIsShortcut" registry key back to "IsSortcut", I even deleted the "29" key from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Shell Icons.
TC is now happily using lnk-files, I still can pin stuff to the taskbar, no arrows on my desktop, perfect.
I don't know yet which keys are changed by WinaeroTweaker, but I can tell the "29" key is not needed, I have no more "29" key. That never changed anything for me on my system anyway. If I find out where the problem originally was, I will post that here.
Thanks to all of you for your time and your support, I highly appreciate it.