Installing Vista SP1 just a few hours ago, and my rig hasn’t crashed so it might be worth something. Not that my rig has crashed a lot running Vista. Anyway, that prompted me to look at other tweaks that you can do with Vista.

Some hate the drop shadow effect on icons but we’ve already solved that here. Here’s one other beef that a lot of people have with the Windows Desktop - the arrows on shortcut icons. While some programs leave decent icons without the arrows upon installation, by default, you simply get shortcuts with arrows on them.

If you want to get rid of it, you might want to try this program out - Vista Shortcut Manager. The name’s quite misleading since all it does is tweak how the arrows display on the shortcuts but at least it gives you the functionality to customize the arrows on the shortcut icons. You can swap it with a smaller arrow, set your own custom arrow or totally eradicate the darned arrow. You can even set it to automatically remove the arrows upon installation.

Download Vista Shortcut Manager here. You need the .NET Framework for this to work.