How do I remove "shortcut" from shortcuts and only have an arrow?

In XP you can relatively easily remove the "shortcut" text to a shortcut.
The arrow is enough for me. Has Microsoft thought to include that feature in
the Vista operating system? If not, how do I do it? I got a copy of TweakVI
but I'm a bit anxious to start mucking about with that. There are a lot of
tweaks active by default, not the least of which is their insistence on
disabling UAC, which I think is a bit counterproductive to the security of
Vista.

"Steve Turner" <stevezygote@hotmail.com> wrote in
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> In XP you can relatively easily remove the "shortcut" text to a
> shortcut. The arrow is enough for me. Has Microsoft thought to include
> that feature in the Vista operating system? If not, how do I do it? I
> got a copy of TweakVI but I'm a bit anxious to start mucking about
> with that. There are a lot of tweaks active by default, not the least
> of which is their insistence on disabling UAC, which I think is a bit
> counterproductive to the security of Vista.
>
>

Just rename the file, right click it and select rename.

"Steve Turner" <stevezygote@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> In XP you can relatively easily remove the "shortcut" text to a shortcut.
> The arrow is enough for me. Has Microsoft thought to include that feature
> in the Vista operating system? If not, how do I do it? I got a copy of
> TweakVI but I'm a bit anxious to start mucking about with that. There are
> a lot of tweaks active by default, not the least of which is their
> insistence on disabling UAC, which I think is a bit counterproductive to
> the security of Vista.


I don't quite know what you mean by "remove the "shortcut" text". Have you
tried right-clicking on the shortcut and choosing "Rename"?

As others said, you can rename the shortcut and remove the text " shortcut"
from the file name. Also, you can prevent the "Shortcut" Suffix from being
added to new shortcuts using a registry edit. See:
http://www.winhelponline.com/article...ows-Vista.html

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"Steve Turner" <stevezygote@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> In XP you can relatively easily remove the "shortcut" text to a shortcut.
> The arrow is enough for me. Has Microsoft thought to include that feature
> in the Vista operating system? If not, how do I do it? I got a copy of
> TweakVI but I'm a bit anxious to start mucking about with that. There are
> a lot of tweaks active by default, not the least of which is their
> insistence on disabling UAC, which I think is a bit counterproductive to
> the security of Vista.

I just edit the text.


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"Steve Turner" <stevezygote@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:9EBB576C-9F73-438C-9742-1E7A119D8CA3@microsoft.com...
> In XP you can relatively easily remove the "shortcut" text to a shortcut.
> The arrow is enough for me. Has Microsoft thought to include that feature
> in the Vista operating system? If not, how do I do it? I got a copy of
> TweakVI but I'm a bit anxious to start mucking about with that. There are
> a lot of tweaks active by default, not the least of which is their
> insistence on disabling UAC, which I think is a bit counterproductive to
> the security of Vista.

Hi Steve,

This tutorial will help show you how to remove the "Shortcut" name from
all new shortcuts created.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/73...ut-prefix.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Steve Turner;794858 Wrote:
> In XP you can relatively easily remove the "shortcut" text to a
> shortcut.
> The arrow is enough for me. Has Microsoft thought to include that
> feature in
> the Vista operating system? If not, how do I do it? I got a copy of
> TweakVI
> but I'm a bit anxious to start mucking about with that. There are a lot
> of
> tweaks active by default, not the least of which is their insistence on
> disabling UAC, which I think is a bit counterproductive to the security
> of
> Vista.


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"Ramesh, MS-MVP" <ramesh@unknownhost> wrote in message
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> As others said, you can rename the shortcut and remove the text "
> shortcut" from the file name. Also, you can prevent the "Shortcut" Suffix
> from being added to new shortcuts using a registry edit. See:
> http://www.winhelponline.com/article...ows-Vista.html

Thank you, Ramesh. VERY helpful!

You're welcome Steve.

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog
Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com


"Steve Turner" <stevezygote@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Ramesh, MS-MVP" <ramesh@unknownhost> wrote in message
> news:%23R2kyTj9IHA.3544@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> As others said, you can rename the shortcut and remove the text "
>> shortcut" from the file name. Also, you can prevent the "Shortcut" Suffix
>> from being added to new shortcuts using a registry edit. See:
>> http://www.winhelponline.com/article...ows-Vista.html
>
> Thank you, Ramesh. VERY helpful!
>