Don't look now but......
Don't look now, but this tutorial for removing/replacing the arrows of Windows 7 shortcuts doesn't quite work as you might have expected. It works fine, after the first reboot, which theoretically sets up the operating system to do as you've changed it to do. But the next time you either reboot or re-start your system, back come all the arrows - probably being restored from some backup copy in the protected files section of Windows. I've tried this and two other schemes now to get rid of these arrows, and none of them works beyond a couple of reboots or re-starts. So if you're using Windows 7, don't get your hopes up for a program to get rid of these arrows.
And this being the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street, and the Muppets gang, if you want to turn any of those characters into your own set of icons, the link to IcoFX in the right-hand margin here will get you a free program that does it. Have a look at the icon for "Ray" on the left in this image, and you'll see a sample of what IcoFX can do. It's a fun program... I made several of the other icons on my desktop with it. Why settle for someone else's?
Taking another look at this problem, I think maybe I've found the cause: ME!
ReplyDeleteI had too many programs on here for modifying the desktop icons for shortcuts, and I suspect they were conflicting with each other, or preventing something from happening that needed to.
Another discovery I made was that one of the chipsets in the PC which just came back from the shop with a new hard-drive didn't yet have its correct driver installed. A visit to the Nvidia website got that solved also. So now, those pesky arrows that overlay the icons of shortcuts are once more gone - for good, I hope!