How to make the ugly arrow in the lower left of all my desktop icons go away?

i was looking at my desktop today.... and it just doesnt look good
any help?

uhh, that means that the icon is a shortcut.

the only way to get rid of the arrow is to install the program on your desktop...

i dont think its good, though, to have very many things on your desktop anyway... it slows your computer down...

lol yeah i know its a shortcut
sorry if i sounded like a total n00b, but there must be some program that makes all those ugly arrows just dont show up, prolly even a windows setting, i just dont know any

By:
Colin Sun Today: Wipe out Pesky Arrows in Shortcuts
A few weeks ago a reader asked me if I knew how to
removed those pesky arrows that come with shortcut
icons. At the time I didn't know how to do that, but I
do now and it's a very easy.
Let's open up regedit, go to Start then run and from
there type regedit. From there follow this path
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT -> lnkfile (that's an L). Inside
there rename the IsShortcut String value to
AriochIsShortcut. Reboot your machine and now you will
notice all your shortcut icon's no longer have that
annoying little arrow. This works with both WindowsXP
and Win2k, I'm not sure if it works with Win98 to be
honest I haven't even touched a Win9x based OS in the
last year.

Does that help?

You can download tweakui from the MS site and you can use it to get rid of the arrows. Has some other nice features in there also.

Ask in a software section. Thanks.