Shortcut Arrow - Change, Remove, or Restore

Passa,
I understand you fully. Registry modification did not work in my case too - in Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I went my own way and replaced the arrow icon in shell32.dll (icon no. 264) with blank one. Make a copy of shell32.dll, modify with any tool e.g. ResourceHacker or IconWorkshop, then place the file back to system32 and SysWOW64. Unfortunately you cannot do this directly - Windows prevents any change in system32 folder. I have two systems on my machine so I simply enter the other system and change this which is not used. You may use live CD e.g. any Lunux to perform replacing dll file. In the end you should kill icon cache file residing in user\AppData\Local\IconCache.db.
This method is not easy but you are free of funny overlay forever.
JS

Mr GRiM said:

Here you go Shawn, seemed to work for me. Attachment 2839

Thanks Mr. Grimm, this did the trick. Don't skim the read me file to quickly though, I did three restarts before I re-read it and realized I hadn't relocated the blank.ico file

Eliminate the user error, however, and it works perfect.

Thanks again.

Any chance of getting rid of them altogether?

Oops, didn't see that!! Thanks.

I want something mark my shortcuts, but not the default arrow. Is there any way to change my arrow into something else? Like a little heart or grenade or something.

Yes they tell you how to change to a custom arrow by installing that program, but don't say anything about where to get custom arrows.