Desktop Shortcuts Lack Arrows

[SWB]

All of the shortcuts I have on my Win 95 desktop lack arrows. But they are present everywhere else I have a shortcut. And Tweak UI is set so that the arrows should be there. Although I don't mind not having the arrows on the desktop (it's actually sort of neat), I'd like to know what I did to remove them. They were present until a crash several months back. I figure that my problem is a corrupt registry key. Anyone know where it might be? Thanks.

[mort]

the arrows are controlled in two locations, 1)HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Lnkfile and 2)HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\piffile. Both these locations have a DWORD value of LsShortcut. The value should be set to "" for arrows to appear. If you rename the DWORD value to xlsShortcut, it will remove the arrows. If either of these keys are missing, or renamed, the arrows will not show up, but setting the value to " " should correct the problem.

[SWB]

I checked in the Registry at both the Lnkfile and piffile locations. In both cases the keys are present and have a DWORD value of "lsShortcut". The values of both keys are also set to " ". The only difference I can see from your post is that the "L" in "LsShortcut" is in lower rather than upper case type. Would this make a difference?

[mort]

you need to place an 'x' in front of the lsShortcut so it reads 'xlsshortcut'. The case should not matter, by renaming it the registry does not find the value of what it is looking for.