Win8 shortcut small arrow using the tool such as optimization master to remove the tutorial

Right-click on the desktop to create a new text document, copy the following code into it, save as win8.bat (file type select all files), right click “Run as administrator”, restart the computer and the shortcut arrow disappears.

reg add “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerShell Icons” /v 29 /d

“%systemroot%system32imageres.dll,197” /t reg_sz /f

taskkill /f /Im explorer.exe

attrib -s -r -h “%userprofile%AppDataLocaliconcache.db”

del “%userprofile%AppDataLocaliconcache.db” /f /q

start explorer

If you need to restore the small arrow, you can use the same method, the code uses the following.

reg delete “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerShell Icons” /v 29 /f

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe

attrib -s -r -h “%userprofile% AppDataLocaliconcache.db”

del “%userprofile%AppDataLocaliconcache.db” /f /q

start explorer