Windows – Prevent “- Shortcut” suffix when creating shortcuts on Windows 7

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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 restarting explorer.exe would have done it.

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