Windows 7: Arrows on shortcuts

There are 2 problems in one:

• Big ugly arrows on shortcuts in Windows 7
• Appending of "Link for" to all newly created shortcuts

Both of them are solved by simply correcting 2 values in Windows registry and adding a new file to a system.

New file is a blank icon (which probably can be created manualy, but I've downloaded it from here). This file, called for example blank.ico, should be put into %systemroot%. Now let's tweak the registry.

To disable arrows, create a key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Shell Icons] and add parameter with RG_EXPAND_SZ type:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Shell Icons]
"29"="C:\\Windows\\Blank.ico,0"

To disable "link for", set:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"link"=hex:00,00,00,00

I tested it on my Windows 7. I'm not sure, but probably this solution also applies for other versions of Windows.