Windows 10: Remove yellow/blue sheild icon from shortcuts

After upgrading to Windows 10, some desktop shortcuts have UAC shield icons. Is it possible to remove them?





EDIT: Here's a solution...
Launch the shortcuts via CMD:

• Right-click the shortcut to Properties
• Click Change Icon, then click OK when its window pops up (necessary step to avoid losing the icon)
• Add the following, plus a space, to the beginning of the Target field, leaving the existing path at the end:
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I had previously solved this by editing a system icon file, but that method doesn't seem to be working as of update 1607, plus it was a lot more trouble.

:)

 

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Remove yellow/blue sheild icon from shortcuts Solved - Windows 10 Forums

 

How do I shrink the size of the blue arrow or blue/yellow checkered shield over the top of my desktop shortcut icons?

On my desktop shortcuts, the blue arrows on white squares are taking up almost the entire lower left quadrant of my icon. Also, some shortcuts have a blue and yellow checkered shield in the lower right quadrant. Combined, about half the icon is obscured.
Is there any way to shrink the size of arrows and shields that overlay these icons, or conversely, increase the relative size of the icons so that the arrow or shield obscures less of them?

 

Would appear that you need Administrative rights to run those programs. I wonder if you could use a hack like the blank.ico trick for not having the shortcut "arrow" overlay on shortcuts, the way Ultimate Windows Tweaker 3 does.

 

I tried something similar called "Microangelo On Display", but no luck. It's apparently lost its previous shield-removing powers on Windows 10.

Is anyone else aware of any apps/hacks that would be able to do this?

 

Those shields mean that the program has Administrative rights to run. To remove them, typically, all you need to do is remove Admin rights from the shortcut or via the *.exe.

 

Right, but those programs typically need admin rights, right? I'm just looking for a way to prevent the icon from showing up.

From what I've read, you'd need to manually edit the imageres.dll that contains the icon, or find a program like On Display that does this for you (if that is how it does what it does).

I just can't find anything on how to do this in Windows 10.

 

Games dont need admin rights and I doubt your imageres.dll contains those game icons.

Most of the time you can manually change icons without a program, but I heard there was another tweakui floating around that will remove the shortcut arrows.

 

Wrong. They only need specific permission to perform saves.

 

Do you know which permissions would be enough to allow them to save, but not so much that the icon shows up?

 

I had the same problem and followed the tutorial below to get rid of it. You can actually also get rid of the short cut arrow the same way without going through the other trick. Might seem a bit daunting but it's easy and I've had no issues since doing it

Clear uac icon overlays on windows 8 icons

 

afaik, UAC permission should be built into games, same goes for the folder that the saves go into. When I refer to specific permission, I mean that the game should have permissions only for folder that the game needs, no more. Installation folder(s), settings folders (%user/appdata%), and saves folders (most games save in %user/documents%), some of this information is saved to the registry under the games publisher and/or developer. I wish I knew the exact process how games receive and utilize read/write permissions, and I think UAC has a lot to do with it. All I know is that M$ allows the registry to be used like a dart board, so spyware and virus's can easily abuse and hide in it.

Any game specific icons should be in the same folder as the main program.

 

EDIT: this no longer seems to be working as of update 1607. Here's a much simpler solution.

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Thanks! This worked perfectly.

For those interested, here's a more concise step-by-step:

• Copy imageres.dll out of C:\Windows\System32\ to work on it
• Open it with Resource Hacker
• Navigate to "Icon Group" 78 and right-click to "Save *.ico resource"
• Open the saved (shield) .ico with IcoFX
• Ctrl+Q to reduce opacity to -99 (not -100, lest they appear as black boxes)
• Repeat for each of the icon sizes except 16x16 (where it comes in handy in context menus)
• Save the .ico and exit IcoFX
• Back in Resource Hacker, right-click 78, this time clicking "Replace Icon"
• Click "Open file with new icon", select your edited shield .ico, and click "Replace"
• Save the edited imageres.dll and exit Resource Hacker
• Take ownership of the original, System32 imageres.dll, as well as the one found in SysWOW64
• Rename them both to imageres_original.dll or similar
• Copy your edited imageres.dll to both System32 and SysWOW64
• Rebuild the icon cache, and behold, your shortcuts are shield free!

 

Glad it worked and just remember if you use sfc /scannow it will replace the imageres.dll as it considers it corrupted but it's just a matter of putting the modded dll back

 

Win 10 is not letting me paste the nice clean fixed version of imageres.dll (or save any modifications to the original) :/