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31 Oct 2009   #1

win 7
 
 
Remove shield icon

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.

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01 Nov 2009   #2

64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 & Windows 8 Enterprise
Texas
 
 

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
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01 Nov 2009   #3

win 7
 
 

Thanks Brinks,

That did the trick, my desktop is almost perfect now.
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01 Nov 2009   #4

64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 & Windows 8 Enterprise
Texas
 
 

You're welcome Hippye. I hope you get your desktop the way you want it.
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22 May 2011   #5

Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
 
 

Quote   Quote: Originally Posted by Brink View Post
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
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22 May 2011   #6

64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 & Windows 8 Enterprise
Texas
 
 

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   Note
Special thanks to OEM for pointing this out, and the previous Vista version by DMEX.
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22 May 2011   #7

Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
 
 

Quote   Quote: Originally Posted by brink View Post
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   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

Last edited by CoolHipDude; 22 May 2011 at 11:24 PM.. Reason: add some additional text and also edit some text too
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23 May 2011   #8

64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 & Windows 8 Enterprise
Texas
 
 

That's great news CHD, I'm happy to hear it helped.
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07 Jul 2011   #9

64 bit
 
 

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.
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07 Jul 2011   #10

Windows 7 Ultimate x64 RTM + SP1
Cambridge, UK
 
 

Quote   Quote: Originally Posted by Talha Ghaffar View Post
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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