Remove Blue Arrows Icon on Compressed Files and Folders in Windows 10

Remove Blue Arrows Icon on Compressed Files and Folders in Windows 10: One of the features of Windows 10 is that it supports NTFS compression on NTFS volumes, hence individual files and folders on NTFS volumes can easily be compressed using NTFS compression. Now when you compress a file or folder using the above compression then the file or folder will have a double blue arrow icon which indicates that the file or folder is compressed.

Remove Blue Arrows Icon on Compressed Files and Folders in Windows 10Remove Blue Arrows Icon on Compressed Files and Folders in Windows 10

When you encrypt a compress file or folder then it will not remain compressed once the encryption takes place. Now some users might want to change or remove double blue arrows icon on compress file and folders then this tutorial is for them. So without wasting any time let’s see How to Remove Blue Arrows Icon on Compressed Files and Folders in Windows 10 with the help of the below-listed tutorial.

Remove Blue Arrows Icon on Compressed Files and Folders in Windows 10

Make sure to create a restore point just in case something goes wrong.

1.Press Windows Key + R then type regedit and hit Enter to open Registry Editor.

Run command regedit

2.Navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons

3.If you do not have “Shell Icons” key then right-click on Explorer select New > Key.

If you do not have 'Shell Icons' key then right-click on Explorer select New & then select Key

4.Name this key as “Shell Icons” then again right-click on “Shell Icons” folder and select New > String Value.

Now Right-click on Shell Icons folder and select New then String Value

5.Name this new string as 179 and hit Enter.

Name this new string as 179 under Shell Icons & hit Enter

6.Double-click on 179 string then change the value to the full path of the custom .ico file you want to use.

Change the value of the 179 string to the location of the .ico file

7.If you don’t have any file then download the blank.ico file from here.

8.Now copy and paste the above file to the following folder:

C:\Windows\

Move the blank.ico or transparent.ico to Windows Folder inside C Drive

9.Next, change the value of the 179 string to the following:

C:\Windows\blank.ico 
OR
C:\Windows\transparent.ico

Change the value of the 179 string to the location of the .ico file

10.Reboot your PC to save changes.

11.If in future you need to restore the Double Blue Arrows Icon then simply delete the 179 string from Shell Icons folder.

To Restore the Double Blue Arrows Icon then simply delete the 179 string from Shell Icons

Remove Blue Arrow Icon in Folder Properties

1.Right-click on the file or folder where you want to remove the blue arrow icon then select Properties.

Right-click on the file or folder where you want to remove the blue arrow icon then select Properties

2.Make sure to switch to General tab then click on Advanced.

Switch to General tab then click on Advanced

3.Now uncheckCompress contents to save disk space” then click OK.

Uncheck Compress contents to save disk space and click OK

4.On folder properties window click on Apply.

5.Select “Apply changes to all folders, subfolders, and files” to confirm attribute changes.

Select Apply changes to this folders, subfolders, and files to confirm attribute changes

6.Reboot your PC to save changes.

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That’s it, you successfully learned How to Remove Blue Arrows Icon on Compressed Files and Folders in Windows 10 but if you still have any queries regarding this tutorial then feel free to ask them in the comment’s section.

7 thoughts on “Remove Blue Arrows Icon on Compressed Files and Folders in Windows 10”

  1. You can just kill the explorer task and then start it again after making the registry change. No need to restart the whole computer.

  2. I tried that and the blue arrows are on every file and folder on windows 10. No one file or folder has a check mark for compress contents to save disk file. Is there away to get around this?

  3. I reintalled my MS office Pro Plus 2016 on my Win 10 Pro Machine and apparently all apps works and not Excel which, its icon has to blue arrows at its top right corner. Need help please.

  4. i got a white paper icon on the top right of the files. this made it worse and now i cnt reset it. anyone got any tips to fix the white paper icon?

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