Windows 7: Remove shield icon

hippye · 31 Oct 2009

I have a nice black and white custom desktop theme going on and I want to remove the elevated icon shield from a program icon. It's the yellow and blue icon. I had a problem running rainmeter and had to run it in winxp compatability mode and that shield icon is harshing my desktop.

Brink · 01 Nov 2009

Hello Hippye,

You cannot remove the sheild by default. However, you might try creating a new elevated shortcut for it instead as a workaround.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

hippye · 01 Nov 2009

Thanks Brinks,

That did the trick, my desktop is almost perfect now.

Brink · 01 Nov 2009

You're welcome Hippye. I hope you get your desktop the way you want it.

CoolHipDude · 22 May 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by Brink

Hello Hippye,

You cannot remove the sheild by default. However, you might try creating a new elevated shortcut for it instead as a workaround.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks Brink for that tip. I will try that with Ultimate Windows Tweaker (which too requires administrator privileges, it seems). I would be most interested to know how you came across the tip in the first place. Thanks a mill.

CHD

Brink · 22 May 2011

Hello CHD, and welcome to Seven Forums.

From the Note box at the top of the tutorial. I hope it works well for you.

Note

Special thanks to OEM for pointing this out, and the previous Vista version by DMEX.

CoolHipDude · 22 May 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by brink

hello chd, and welcome to seven forums.

From the note box at the top of the tutorial. I hope it works well for you.

Note

special thanks to oem for pointing this out, and the previous vista version by dmex.

it works!!!! You rock!!!!

by the way, I have just created a new 'How-Tos' folder in FF
and I have bookmarked your elevated shortcut tip in it, along
with other very useful how-tos in it, for future reference.

chd

Brink · 23 May 2011

That's great news CHD, I'm happy to hear it helped.

Talha Ghaffar · 07 Jul 2011

How can we remove the (yellow-blue) UAC icon that overlay on our executable files without changing UAC Settings or compromising on security? Also how to avoid that pop-up message that says you need administrative writes to continue.

Luckystar · 07 Jul 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by Talha Ghaffar

How can we remove the (yellow-blue) UAC icon that overlay on our executable files without changing UAC Settings or compromising on security? Also how to avoid that pop-up message that says you need administrative writes to continue.

Hello Ghaffer, welcome to forums.

Did the above turorial not work -- Elevated Program Shortcut without UAC Prompt - Create

Try it if you have'nt doen so yet and let us know how you got on.

Lucky

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