Back in the days of Windows 95, and later updated for XP there was a little suite of applets donated to the world free of charge by MIcrosoft. I have just finished a Haswell build and those annoying arrows are back on desktop shortcuts.
Tweak-UI got rid of them simply; I've used the applet on two other current desktops (1 Vista, the other Win 7x64), unadorned icons, but I must have deleted the applet: I can't find it on either system.
Anyone know of an update or replacement that gets rid of those pesky arrows?