Black Box on Desktop

[jhansen965]

Hi everyone,
I have created a hidden shortcut on my desktop. It is completely hidden because I made the icon picture blank and I made the name that invisibol symbol and, I removed the IsShortcut value from my registry. And, everytime I start up my computer, where the hidden shortcut is supposed to be, in its place is a black box. Please help.

 

[seavixen32]

A system restore to a point before you created the shortcut should do the trick, I would have thought.

 

[Brink]

Hello Jacob,

Removing the IsShortcut entry from the registry is where you went wrong. That was fine in XP, but in Vista and Windows 7 it causes many issues being removed. You could download and merge the lnk (LNK) option in the tutorial below to make restoring easier.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/19449-default-file-type-associations-restore.html

Afterwards, you could use one of options in the tutorial below to change the shortcut arrow overlay icon to a blank icon.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3606-shortcut-arrow-change-remove-restore.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[jhansen965]

Okay thanks! I created a system registry backup before I removed the IsShortcut so I will restore it thank you!

 

[Brink]

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