Disable, Remove or change the Shortcut Icon Arrow in Windows Vista

This next Vista Tip or Trick doesn’t involve making manual changes to the registry, We are downloading a free and small program for this which is called Vista Shortcut Manager.

• Okay, you should have grabbed the Vista Shortcut Manager by now.
• Double click the downloaded file and follow the installation steps to install the software.
• Now double click the desktop icon.

You can select in the program window the option for deleting the shortcut arrows, to change the shortcut arrows into an arrow, create a custom shortcut arrow or no arrow at all. I’ve selected no arrow at all and I also check marked the option to remove the “- Shortcut” extension when new shortcuts are created.

Now you need to reboot and your shortcut arrows are deleted or changed.

Supposedly this should work in Windows XP too but I didn’t test this. If you happen to test this, please let me know if it works or not.