How to remove Shortcut Arrows from Desktop icons

We all see a Shortcut Arrow on our shortcuts icons, Do you know that the arrows can be removed the shortcuts key...

Just follow the instructions as discussed below :

1. Perform instructions described under ‘Remove shortcut arrow from desktop icons’. For your convenience, steps 1 to 3 are reported here.

2. Perform instructions described under ‘Remove shortcut arrow from desktop icons (2)’. For your convenience, steps 4 and 5 are reported here.

3. And finally, do the same with conferencelink, docshortcut, internetshortcut and wshfile.

So, here is a summary of all actions:

1. Start Registry Editor(regedit).

2. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile

3. Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

4. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\piffile

5. Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

6. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ConferenceLink
7. Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

8. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DocShortCut

9. Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

10. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\InternetShortcut

11. Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

12. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WSHFile

13. Delete the IsShortcut registry value.

14. Close regedit, and log off

Note : Please note that in some cases deactivating the arrow for *.LNK files might lead to duplicate items in the Explorer Context menu.