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Description
Yay, my first iPack installer. As the title says, it removes the "arrow" overlay from shortcut icons for those who don't want to have shortcut overlays for aesthetic reasons.

Warning: There might be an alert from your anti-virus software.

Background story and technical stuff:
I tried to remove the overlays with two attempts: The first one was to create a registry key which would tell Windows to use another icon as shortcut overlay and I pointed this key to an empty icon file which lead to black rectangles covering shortcut icons (as good ol' Win32 parts of Windows seem to have problems processing an entirely blank icon). The second attempt I tried, was to edit this registry key to have no value (thus pointing to no file at all). It worked, but only until next reboot. No more icons were displayed at all and even worse, I couldn't open file properties as the files' context menus had no function anymore. If your machine does this, consider undoing anything that disabled shortcut arrows before refreshing your OS. After these two attempts I decided to create an iPack installer which replaces the shortcut icon with an empty one but it led to the same result as my first attempt. So I used a pretty dumb trick by painting one pixel of each icon size white (with ~99% transparency, of course) which resulted in proper transparency render.

The theme featured in the preview is Miku by niivu (with associated icon pack).

Description
Yay, my first iPack installer. As the title says, it removes the "arrow" overlay from shortcut icons for those who don't want to have shortcut overlays for aesthetic reasons.

Warning: There might be an alert from your anti-virus software.

Background story and technical stuff:
I tried to remove the overlays with two attempts: The first one was to create a registry key which would tell Windows to use another icon as shortcut overlay and I pointed this key to an empty icon file which lead to black rectangles covering shortcut icons (as good ol' Win32 parts of Windows seem to have problems processing an entirely blank icon). The second attempt I tried, was to edit this registry key to have no value (thus pointing to no file at all). It worked, but only until next reboot. No more icons were displayed at all and even worse, I couldn't open file properties as the files' context menus had no function anymore. If your machine does this, consider undoing anything that disabled shortcut arrows before refreshing your OS. After these two attempts I decided to create an iPack installer which replaces the shortcut icon with an empty one but it led to the same result as my first attempt. So I used a pretty dumb trick by painting one pixel of each icon size white (with ~99% transparency, of course) which resulted in proper transparency render.

The theme featured in the preview is Miku by niivu (with associated icon pack).