Windows 10: Turn On or Off Shortcut Name Extension in Windows 10

Hello mirror7, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

This tutorial can't cause an issue with the shortcut arrow overlay. Did you change the shortcut arrow overlay icon below instead of removing the shortcut name extension?

Shortcut Arrow Icon - Change, Remove, or Restore in Windows 10

 

Hmm. The bat file worked, but when I looked in Regedit to manually make the adjustments, I couldn't find this part of the instructions: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\NamingTemplates
Delete ShortcutNameTemplate string value
There is a subkey under Explorer that has to do with new shortcut handlers, but that wasn't deleted or adjusted after running the bat file. Oh well, the bat file worked. Good enough for me! Thanks much!

 

I'm glad it was able to help Starkman. *Smile

 

Interesting, executing the "turning off bat file" didn't work for me on Windows Ten Pro. Thought it might need reboot, still no success. It did delete the ShortcutNameTemplate string value, but the binary data for link is 1c "00 00 00", not "00 00 00 00".
Edit: Decided to change it manually, reboot and it works fine. That brings an additional question. I never leave the ".exe" in the name either. Is there a way to remove that?

Odd the .bat file did that.

As always (at least previously in Windows 7 forum, recently reading here) I appreciate all of the help in these tutorials.

 

Hello Barefoot, *Smile

I'm glad you got it sorted. If still needed, the tutorial below can help show you how to hide known file extensions to not see them anymore either.

Show - Hide Known File Extensions - Add to Context Menu - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

I have Windows 10 pro v1703, but none of these suggestions work to remove the shortcut text. If I change the HKCU link value to all zeros, it immediately goes back to the previous value. Changing the HKLM to add the link key doesn't make any difference either. Is there anything here I'm doing wrong? I am an administrator on my machine, but I should note that it HAD been working after I initially upgraded from Windows 7 Pro shortly before the 7/29/2016 deadline--this is "relatively" new behavior.

Thx
elaine

 

Hello Elaine, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

Are you using the .bat files?

If not, then you will need to restart the explorer process after manually changing both registry entries.

 

No, I'm an IT pro, but I'll try resetting explorer. Didn't have to do that in the past *Smile

Thx
elaine

 

You're welcome. Please let us know how it went.

 

Sorry, having a brain fart day--it's h*ll when you get old *Smile *Smile Would you be so kind as to post the links for the bat file(s)?

Thx
elaine

 

No worries. They're on the first page in this tutorial thread. You'll want to use the one from step 3.

 

Thanks! Now that is interesting. I already had the first HKCU key, and that was what I'd been changing--and re-changing. I did NOT have the HKLM key at all when I started playing with this. However, I did run the bat, and Voila! It works *Smile I'm not sure exactly what was different about the bat file from what I did, but I suspect I didn't restart Explorer correctly--that's not something I've typically ever needed to do.

Regardless, THANK YOU!!!

Elaine

 

You're most welcome Elaine. I'm happy to hear it's working for you now. *Smile