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In news:eGWjNlxeFHA.3712@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl,
Sharon F <sharonfDEL@ETEmvps.org> had this to say:
My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:53:01 +0530, Ramesh, MS-MVP wrote:
>
>>>> NO ARROWS NOW
>>
>> Glad you got this resolved. However, take a note of the advice that
>> Ken already posted:
>>
>> <quote>
>> However, my recommendation is that you do *not* do this. The arrows
>> serve an important function--providing quick visual identification
>> of a shortcut. If you remove the arrows, you run the substantial
>> risk that sooner or later you will delete something you wanted to
>> keep, thinking that you were just deleting a shortcut to it.
>> </quote>
>>
>> Last month I got a mail from one Mr.Peter, a tech in U.S, that one
>> of their customers had copied a file to floppy and submitted to
>> them. Later the tech found that their customer had copied the
>> "shortcut" of the executable file, rather than copying the actual
>> executable.
>
> I think a good compromise is using the "light" shortcut arrows -
> another option in TweakUI. Still have the arrow for reference but
> it's not as noticeable.
Personally I go ahead and get rid of them. I don't use them because I don't
like them AND because I do not EVER leave executables on the desktop, they
have folders made just for them... In fact most shortcuts end up in a
special folder on the desktop saying shortcuts. (It's my madness I tell you
but I like a clean desktop.) So I suppose if you keep tabs of where you're
leaving random shortcuts and have folders specifically for downloaded
applications (for instance non-installed apps that I keep I really DO put
into the program files as a folder and then put a shortcut where I want it -
it's more work but I like neat/organized) it doesn't tend to cause any
problems. I'm actually a bit anal about where I download stuff, where I
place stuff, and how I keep my systems organized now that I think about it.
Even my start menu is organized.
Then again I'm still figuring out a way to wash my monitor's electron
guns... I clean my firearms after I use them so they still work the next
time I use them. I should then, logically, clean my electron guns. I think
the slots at the top of my CRT monitor are probably for that fuel system
cleaner put out by STP. I'm still not sure what to do with the TFT displays
though. I'm beginning to suspect that they have advanced technology meaning
that I should probably press on the screen (with a cloth covered hand of
course, I wouldn't want to smudge it) to make the pretty colors appear and
that process shows that it's cleaning them.
Galen
--
"And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."
Sherlock Holmes
However I'd do so with an application 
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