You can remove shortcuts from your desktop without deleting the important files they point to. Here's how to do it on a Mac ...

William Beaver asked for “a simple, safe” way to remove the arrows from the shortcuts on his desktop. Shortcuts point to files–usually but not always programs–that are stored elsewhere on your drive.

The Home screen provides easy access to all apps and services in smartphones and tablets. This is made possible given that system services and downloaded apps typically have shortcut icons displayed ...

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.

In the January 2008 issue (page 80), I told how to eliminate those annoying little arrows in Windows XP’s shortcut icons by running Microsoft’s free Tweak UI tool. At that time there were no free ...

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 ...