Tweak Library – Hide “Shortcut to” prefix to any new shortcut you create.

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Hide “Shortcut to” prefix to any new shortcut you create.

This setting will hide shortcut to prefix for any new shortcut, you create.

Tweak for : Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista

Description:

Whenever you create any shotcut, then Windows will add the text "Shortcut to.." to that shotcut description. For example, make a shortcut to any folder in a drive, Windows automatically adds "Shortcut to.." to the exact description. If you are not interested in this type of display then you will have to make some modifications in the registry.

For this, go to Start > Run menu, enter “regedit” and navigate to the registry path listed below. Now, right-click and modify the Binary value “Link” to “00 00 00 00” which can hide the “Shortcut to” prefix. However, if you want to add the prefix back, change the value data to “1D 00 00 00”.

The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.

NOTE:
"Shortcut" is suffix in Windows Vista.

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Hide Shortcut Prefix.reg

The '.reg' file will hide 'Shortcut to' prefix.

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Show Shortcut Prefix.reg

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\]

Key Type :

Current User

Value Name :

Link

Data Type :

REG_BINARY (Binary Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

00000000

Value Action :

Modified

Steps ScreenShots:

Apply registry settings according below given steps of screenshots with related changes.

'Shortcut to' prefix is hidden.

'Shortcut to' prefix is visible by default.

First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".

Second, go to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\] and right click on the Binary value "Link" and select 'Modify'.

Finally, set the 'Value Data' to "00000000" and click 'OK' to hide 'Shortcut to' prefix.