Remove yellow/blue sheild icon from shortcuts

alzio2020 · 04 Sep 2017

Another thing... With Windows 10 Update Running the Windows and System32 folder are being replaced
and the Blue and Yellow Shield will come back... My Suggestion on top of replacing the imageres.dll...
which can be done from windows using the script fix.bat from above... is to also turn off and on Win10 Update

To Turn Windows 10 Update off .... name the .cmd file something like Stop Win10_Update Service.cmd

net stop wuauservnet
stop bitsnet
stop dosvc
.................................................................................................... ........................................................

To start Windows 10 Update Made a .cmd file Start Win10 Update_Service.cmd

net start wuauservnet
start bitsnet
start dosvc

alzio2020 · 04 Sep 2017

Here is the fix.bat ( Lined Up Better This Time )

@ECHO OFF
CLS
TAKEOWN /f %WINDIR%\system32\imageres.dll && icacls %WINDIR%\system32\imageres.dll /grant administrators:F
rename %windir%\system32\imageres.dll "Imageres_%TIME:~0,2%%TIME:~3,2%%TIME:~6,2%.bak"
COPY imageres.dll %WINDIR%\system32\imageres.dll
CLS
EXIT

alzio2020 · 04 Sep 2017

I also notice that if I replace the imageres.dll but don't replace the arrow
the Blue and Yellow Badges are still there... but if I remove the arrows with a blank.ico
then the Blue and Yellow Badges go away as well... Seems odd... but I can make them
go away if I remove both... You also might think about making the iconcache.db a folder
so that the file iconcache.db doesn't come back... not that that matters... but
it might mean something. I like to hit the problem with a lot of ammo.

MrGenius · 07 Oct 2017

Alright...so having installed version 1709(Fall Creator's Update) yesterday I found myself needing to do this all over again. And I really wanted to see if I could get it perfected. I found a workaround to fix the black squares I was seeing on my non-desktop icons. But I really wasn't satisfied with having to do that. It involved installing a program called Tweak Power by KurtZimmermann SOFTWARE. Which I had no use for, other than for whatever reason simply having it installed made all my non-desktop icons black square-free. Anyhow...long story short...I went back through this thread and decided to try the method of editing the imageres.dll file with Resource Hacker and IcoFX. Just to see if I could get any better results by doing the work myself. Well...it didn't work any better on my first try. Second try same thing. But...some-fricken-how on the third try it worked perfectly. No more yellow/blue shields, no more black squares...anywhere. Nice! Though I have no idea why. Since I did the exact same thing as the previous 2 attempts. Whatever works...I guess...

Ok...so same procedure/method I recommended in my last post. Except this time use the edited imageres.dll file(from version 1709) that I've attached here(which is smaller than the one used before from a previous version, and works better for me, hopefully for you too) to replace the one in System32. AND...I don't know how much, if any, difference it makes...but ALSO replace the imageres.dll file in SysWOW64(as recommended by previous posters). Maybe that makes a difference...maybe it doesn't. Maybe more so with a 64-Bit OS...I don't know. It definitely doesn't appear to do any harm. It is the exact same(verified) file in both folders. So there must be a reason for that. And I can't see any reason why you wouldn't want to replace them both. Anyway...works for me. So I recommend you do it too.

EDIT: And it should go without saying...this might not work as well if you aren't currently using version 1709. I did install the edited imageres.dll from the previous version(not even sure which, as it was never mentioned) on 1709. Which did work just as well as it did with 1703. But I can't speak for using the imageres.dll from 1709 with earlier versions. I wouldn't know if it works or not. I did already mention the file size difference. Don't know if that matters or not.

alzio2020 · 08 Oct 2017

My Icons are clean on my desktop... no shortcut arrows and no blue and yellow shield
it's been that way for about a month...

Here is a original imageres.dll that I got from a Professional Version that will work for you too.

The size unzipped is like 23,521,792 kB ( 23.5 MB ) slightly smaller than what is posted above.

Attachment 157106

MrGenius · 08 Oct 2017

That got me thinking. Why not edit an imageres.dll file to get rid of the yellow/blue shields AND the shortcut arrows all-in-one?

Done!
Attachment 157159

Side note: FYI the shortcut arrow is Icon Group 163. I applied the same method to remove it as for the yellow/blue shield(reduce opacity to -99). All sizes got the same treatment, so you want be seeing them anywhere(not just on desktop icons/shortcuts). Tested and working. See my previous posts, #34 and #27, for more info and how to install. As previously stated this imageres.dll file is from version 1709(Fall Creator's Update). So I don't guarantee it will work with previous versions.

MIKLO · 31 Dec 2017

@Michael thank you so much this has been annoying me and I tried many things and finally your fix works. :) This site is very good and has very helpful information. Thanks again,
MIKLO

Michael said:

After upgrading to Windows 10, some desktop shortcuts have UAC shield icons. Is it possible to remove them?

Attachment 26944

EDIT: Here's a solution...
Launch the shortcuts via CMD:

Right-click the shortcut to Properties
Click Change Icon, then click OK when its window pops up (necessary step to avoid losing the icon)
Add the following, plus a space, to the beginning of the Target field, leaving the existing path at the end:
Code:
```
cmd /c start ""
```

I had previously solved this by editing a system icon file, but that method doesn't seem to be working as of update 1607, plus it was a lot more trouble.

DigDeep · 09 Nov 2018

Download Remove UAC shield.rar.
Extract it.
Copy W10MImageRes.dll too C:\Windows.
Double click on Remove UAC Shield Overlay.reg, click Yes and Ok.
Right click the taskbar, choose Task Manager, under Processes find Windows Explorer, right click it and choose Restart.
Enjoy!

Lycanroc · 16 Dec 2018

Hi! I was following this thread and I appear to have an issue. I renamed the files as michael said earlier on but I have appeared to not be able to copy and put in the imageres.dll back in so I continued on. I executed the .bat file as posted in michael's guide and the thread that was posted on how to rebuild the icon chache and now my laptop seems to be destroyed. It is stuck in this loop whenever I restart my pc it alternates between the blue loading circle screen and a black screen. I was able to move my cursor but that was it. Please help...

Michael · 16 Dec 2018

Lycanroc said:

...I executed the .bat file as posted in michael's guide...

The Rebuild_Icon_Cache.bat from here? It wouldn't have caused such mayhem... I would try doing a system restore.

Remove yellow/blue sheild icon from shortcuts

Stop Windows 10 Updates

Here is a good imageres.dll

shield change

Fix that works on all versions of Windows 10