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This tutorial has covered all those methods. You can either use manual method by tweaking Windows 10 registry or use some 3rd party tools to quickly remove shortcut arrows from all shortcuts. However, if you want to get rid of that small arrow icon from a shortcut, then this tutorial has multiple solutions. We all know that when we create an application or program shortcut on desktop, that small arrow icon comes with that shortcut. This will use the blank.ico file on your C: drive instead of accessing the transparent icon files on shell32.dll and your IconCache.db will no longer be corrupted, removing the black boxes and the shortcut arrows forever.įor those who want steps on how to do this in regedit, reading material can be found here on How-To Geek.This tutorial explains how to remove shortcut arrows from shortcuts in Windows 10. Then use this value instead of %windir%\System32\shell32.dll,-50 in Shell Icons value 29 in regedit ( HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer) like this: C:\Users\UserName\Pictures\Desktop Icons\blank.ico

To permanently fix the problem without using 3rd party software, do this.ĭownload this blank.ico and save it somewhere on your C: drive.Ĭ:\Users\UserName\Pictures\Desktop Icons. However, the black boxes will come back because Windows continues to corrupt IconCache.db each time it tries to overwrite it with value -50 in shell32.dll. This can temporarily be fixed by deleting IconCache.db and restarting or logging off and on your computer. Using any of these values to remove shortcut arrows in shell32.dll will corrupt the IconCache.db file located in C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local. Is a transparent icon in shell32.dll (in this case value -50). The following value in regedit %windir%\System32\shell32.dll,-50