Removing the Administrator Badge on Icons?

Smoother

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I'm curious if anyone has a registry edit to remove the annoying badges that get stuck with icons in windoz 8? I am running on the absolute lowest security and they still show up. I know what your thinking, why don't you get rid of your icons and use the start page? Well frankly I hate using it, and think its a step backwards for desktop computing. In fact if I didn't have a secondary moniter to throw the start page on I would probably kill myself. Why don't I go back to windows 7? Well I truly was ready for a change after years of using 7, and I appreciate the ground up re-working they did with 8. Sorry for that rant, any solutions are appreciated. Thanks.

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Solution
With UAC off, try deleting the system's icon cache with the following command:

del %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\IconCache.db /a

Reboot the computer after the Icon Cache is removed.

Smoother

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I figured since you can remove the shortcut overlay on icons you could remove that as well.
 

Smoother

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no such luck :/