Some superuser answers and many other Google hits show that setting link
to 00 00 00 00
for the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
will stop concatenating the suffix - Shortcut
when shortcuts are created.
I'm using Windows 7 and this has not worked for me. I have tried
- manually setting the key,
- using
Ultimate Windows Tweaker
- and running a
.reg
file,
but none have worked.
I have set the value, created the shortcut, noted the - Shortcut
suffix and checked that the regkey value was still 00 00 00 00
. The value persists across reboots. Could all those references really be wrong, or am I missing something?
Best Answer
It seems that a reboot was all that was necessary for the tweak to start working. Indeed, setting the value to
00 00 00 00
did it. Maybe a reboot was more than necessary, and just killing and restartingexplorer.exe
would have done it.