Steps to remove the small arrow of the windows 7 desktop icon

Open the registry as an administrator and navigate to [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTlnkfile] and find IsShortcut on the right side, select it, copy the characters when you press F2, then delete the entire key value, then press F3 to open the search. The dialog box will paste the IsShortcut just copied and press Enter to continue checking that the next key value found is also deleted. After you cancel it, you can do it.
1. Start the Registry Editor (Start -> Run -> Enter regedit), and then expand the following branches: "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTlnkfile";
2. Delete "“lnkfile” in the sub-item" IsShortcut” string value item, because the "IsShortcut" item is used to control whether to display the small arrows in the normal application and data file shortcuts;
3. Then expand the following branches: "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTpiffile";;
4. Delete the “IsShortcut” string value item in the “piffile” subkey. The IsShortcut value item is used to control whether to display the small arrow of the MS_DOS program shortcut;
5. Exit the registry editor and restart EXPLORER. EXE process.