How to suppress "Shortcut to ..." when creating a short


  1. pstein
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    win7pro 64bit
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    How to suppress "Shortcut to ..." when creating a short


    Is there a way to tell Win7 NOT to prepend automatically a "shortcut to" when I create a shortcut to an existing file?

    This was possible in WinXP. So I guess it is possible in Win7 too.

    But how exactly?

    Peter
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  3. Brink
    Posts : 72,058
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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    Hello Peter,

    This tutorial can help show you how to not have the "shortcut" extension on the name anymore.

    Shortcut Extension - Remove or Restore

    Hope this helps,
    Shawn
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