Remove the 'Shortcut to...' Prefix on Shortcuts

Paste the following in Notepad and save it with a '.reg' extension. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer] "link"=hex:00,00,00,00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer] "link"=hex:00,00,00,00

Now merge it with the registry.

To undo the effect replace the value of "link" with "link"=hex:01,00,00,00