Windows Vista adds some big-ass arrows to its desktop shortcut icons. Luckily, the How-To Geek site has instructions on how to remove them. This tweak involves editing the Windows registry, not ...

UPDATE ON ERASING THE SHORTCUT ICON ARROWS In the January 2008 issue (page 80), I told how to eliminate those annoying little arrows in Windows XP’s shortcut icons by running Microsoft’s free Tweak UI ...

Check Remove arrows from Shortcut icons, and/or Remove “-Shortcut” suffix for new shortcuts. Click Apply before closing the window.