Interesting issue with the shortcut arrow. Familiar with the old topic, but this feels different.
Interesting issue with the shortcut arrow. Familiar with the old topic, but this feels different.
So, I've done a little digging but haven't found any useful information so I thought I'd ask here. about 6 months ago I bought a Dell Inspiron laptop running windows 10 and immediately upgraded it to Win10 Pro. This machine is currently updated to 21H2 Last week I purchased a Dell XPS Desktop with Win10 Pro, Also updated to 21H2 I noticed the Desktop when I create shortcut puts the annoying little arrow which I hate, and there used to be an option to tell windows NOT to do that but they took it away at some point. I've since decided this wasn't directly windows but the Tweak UI powertoy. So I looked online and found the trick in regedit where you create the registry key that stops the arrow, but of course now I get the annoying black boxes over the icons that goes away eventually but it annoys me, and then it occurred to me, Why doesn't the laptop put the arrows on shortcuts and never has from day one, So I checked the registry to see if maybe it already had the registry key hack (Like did I do the regedit mod and forget I did it? Nope!) that most people recommend and it doesn't. So I'm not at all sure how this is being accomplished. Possibly something to do with the upgrade from 10 to 10 Pro? Doubtful. Then I wondered if there's some sort of group policy editor configuration that effects it. But I have no idea how to save the group policies from both machines and compare them like doing a registry backup. So if anybody has a suggestion I'd really appreciate it, I'm really annoyed with the boxes and even more annoyed that I have no idea why the laptop worked perfectly from the start but the desktop doesn't. I'm hoping to discover how the laptop came from the factory configured to not do the arrow so maybe we'll have a better way than the regedit trick and the black boxes caused by it sometimes.