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Prevent "- Shortcut" suffix when creating shortcuts on Windows 7

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20262601 views
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Some superuser answers and many other Google hits show that setting to for the registry key will stop concatenating the suffix when shortcuts are created. I'm using Windows 7 and this has not worked for me. I have tried manually setting the key, using and running a file, but none have worked. I hav…

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Fix for: Prevent "- Shortcut" suffix when creating shortcuts on Windows 7

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It seems that a reboot was all that was necessary for the tweak to start working. Indeed, setting the value to did it. Maybe a reboot was more than necessary, and just killing and restarting would have done it.

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