I need to repair the shortcut arrow overlay image, which is corrupted. Why is this so...

[Guest AntigravityMints]

I've been researching how to resolve this for almost 30 minutes now and I'm becoming irritated by the complete lack of usable responses from a variety of Win7 help sites. There are a handful of registry editing solutions but I've yet to find one I'm willing to trust. Typical responses are:

 

 

- Use a third party program to modify the registry [ultimate Tweaker, Vista Shortcut Manager, both of which are dangerously out of date]

 

- Rebuild the icon database [This is obviously not going to resolve the overlay problem]

 

- Don't do this because ______ and you may be too irresponsible to manage that risk

 

 

Can a community member offer a definitive resolution to this incredibly simple problem? It would be maybe the only posted solution available in the galaxy and so clearly a dramatic boon to your prestige. Again, I'm not interested in removing the overlay as this apparently is taboo.

 

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