Windows: Shortcuts on your desktop (or anywhere else) are usually indicated by that little arrow in the bottom-left corner of the icon. It’s a tad ugly and a new tool called Windows Shortcut Arrow ...

Windows Vista adds some big-ass arrows to its desktop shortcut icons. Luckily, the How-To Geek site has instructions on how to remove them. This tweak involves editing the Windows registry, not ...

Don’t like the way Windows works? Who does? But just because the operating system doesn’t look and work the way you want doesn’t mean that you’re stuck with it as is. Windows is extremely tweakable; ...

Mike Littman doesn’t like those “pesky little arrows” that Windows displays on shortcuts, and asked how to remove them. [Email your tech questions to [email protected] or post them on the PCW Answer ...

Who says that every download has to be an earth-shaking applicationthat changes the way you compute? We sure don’t. Sometimes, in fact, the best downloads aresimple, one-trick ponies that accomplish ...

Shortcuts are a convenient solution for quick access to folders you use frequently, but if you've gone overboard or installed a lot of new programs recently, your desktop can quickly become cluttered.