{"id":11764,"date":"2018-06-10T08:09:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T08:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=11764"},"modified":"2018-06-10T08:19:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T08:19:18","slug":"remove-double-blue-arrows-on-compressed-folders-files-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/remove-double-blue-arrows-on-compressed-folders-files-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove Double Blue Arrows on Compressed Folders \/ Files in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

What are the double blue arrows that sometimes appear on my desktop icons and pictures and how can I get rid of them? When a folder or file is compressed with NTFS to save space, Windows 10 will add a double blue arrows overlay at the top right corner to show compression status of the folder\/file. If you’re annoyed by this odd and inconsistent behavior, here are 2 simple ways to remove double blue arrows on compressed folders\/files in Windows 10.<\/p>\n

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Method 1: Remove Double Blue Arrows for All Compressed Folders\/Files<\/strong><\/p>\n

All you need to do is put a blank icon file somewhere on your PC, then make a small registry change to make Windows display this blank image instead of the blue double arrows icon.<\/p>\n

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  1. First of all, download blank_icon.zip<\/a> and extract the blank.ico file to C:\\Windows.<\/li>\n
  2. Press the Windows key + R keyboard combination to open the Run box. Type regedit<\/strong> and press Enter to open Registry Editor.\n

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  3. Now Navigate to the following location:
    \nHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer<\/code><\/p>\n

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    \tRight-click on the Explorer<\/strong> subkey on the left pane, and select New<\/strong> -> Key<\/strong>.\n<\/li>\n

  4. Name the new key “Shell Icons<\/strong>“, and then right-click it and select New<\/strong> -> String Value<\/strong>.\n

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  5. Name the new string “179<\/strong>“, and then double-click it to set its value data to C:\\Windows\\blank.ico<\/em>.\n

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  6. Close Registry Editor. Log off or restart Windows 10 for the change to take effect.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Method 2: Remove Double Blue Arrows for Certain Folders\/Files<\/strong><\/p>\n

    If you just want to remove double blue arrows for a certain folder or file, just decompress it to turn off NTFS compression.<\/p>\n

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    1. Open File Explorer and browse to the folder or file with double blue arrows overlay, right-click on it and select Properties<\/strong> from the context menu.<\/li>\n
    2. Under the General<\/strong> tab, click the Advanced<\/strong> button.\n

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    3. Tick the checkbox for “Compress contents to save disk space<\/strong>“. Click OK<\/strong>.\n

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    4. If you selected a folder, then you will be prompted to tick “Apply changes to this folder, subfolder and files<\/strong>” and click OK<\/strong>. It will take some time to decompress all its subfolders and files.\n

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    5. At this point you should see the double blue arrows has disappeared from your folder\/file icon. That’s it!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      What are the double blue arrows that sometimes appear on my desktop icons and pictures and how can I get rid of them? When a folder or file is compressed with NTFS to save space, Windows 10 will add a double blue arrows overlay at the top right corner to show compression status of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11764"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11785,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11764\/revisions\/11785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}