Vista - Shortcut arrow size

I would like the shorcut arrows of the desktop icons to be smaller.
Is there any registry value that can be modified?
I could not find any option in all the menues of Vista.
Carlos

In Vista, I don't think there's an option to change it. If your feeling
adventurous, try

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.ph...owtopic=499870

Scroll down to "Remove the arrow (Shortcut Overlay) without side effects",
on that page.

Hope this helps,
Dean


"Carlos" wrote:

> I would like the shorcut arrows of the desktop icons to be smaller.
> Is there any registry value that can be modified?
> I could not find any option in all the menues of Vista.
> Carlos

Dean-Dean:
Thanks for the tip.
I'm not feeling that adventurous today and I'd like to keep a small arrow
instead of no arrow.
I will keep waiting for TweakUI for Vista (will it ever exist?).
The tutorial about the arrow in your link was quite enlightening.

Carlos

"Dean-Dean" wrote:

> In Vista, I don't think there's an option to change it. If your feeling
> adventurous, try
>
> http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.ph...owtopic=499870
>
> Scroll down to "Remove the arrow (Shortcut Overlay) without side effects",
> on that page.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Dean
>
>
> "Carlos" wrote:
>
> > I would like the shorcut arrows of the desktop icons to be smaller.
> > Is there any registry value that can be modified?
> > I could not find any option in all the menues of Vista.
> > Carlos

Hi Carlos,
I have used the tweak from neowin.net and it works fine in RC2. The small
arrow that he created is very small but I like it better than the normal
shortcut arrow.
--
Paul


"Carlos" wrote:

> Dean-Dean:
> Thanks for the tip.
> I'm not feeling that adventurous today and I'd like to keep a small arrow
> instead of no arrow.
> I will keep waiting for TweakUI for Vista (will it ever exist?).
> The tutorial about the arrow in your link was quite enlightening.
>
> Carlos
>
> "Dean-Dean" wrote:
>
> > In Vista, I don't think there's an option to change it. If your feeling
> > adventurous, try
> >
> > http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.ph...owtopic=499870
> >
> > Scroll down to "Remove the arrow (Shortcut Overlay) without side effects",
> > on that page.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Dean
> >
> >
> > "Carlos" wrote:
> >
> > > I would like the shorcut arrows of the desktop icons to be smaller.
> > > Is there any registry value that can be modified?
> > > I could not find any option in all the menues of Vista.
> > > Carlos

The "little arrow" fix is here:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.ph...87952521&st=0&

Not feeling that adventurous myself, I can't report how it works. I'd be
surpised if there wasn't going to be a Tweakui for Vista. The small arrow
still resides in shell32.dll in Vista, as it did in XP, but I have no idea
how the overlay is done. (The big one is in imageres.dll).

Dean



"Carlos" wrote:

> Dean-Dean:
> Thanks for the tip.
> I'm not feeling that adventurous today and I'd like to keep a small arrow
> instead of no arrow.
> I will keep waiting for TweakUI for Vista (will it ever exist?).
> The tutorial about the arrow in your link was quite enlightening.
>
> Carlos
>
> "Dean-Dean" wrote:
>
> > In Vista, I don't think there's an option to change it. If your feeling
> > adventurous, try
> >
> > http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.ph...owtopic=499870
> >
> > Scroll down to "Remove the arrow (Shortcut Overlay) without side effects",
> > on that page.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Dean
> >
> >
> > "Carlos" wrote:
> >
> > > I would like the shorcut arrows of the desktop icons to be smaller.
> > > Is there any registry value that can be modified?
> > > I could not find any option in all the menues of Vista.
> > > Carlos