How to take off the shield tag on some shortcut icon?

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How to take off the shield tag on some shortcut icons?

My OS is Vista B2. The OS add a shield tag on some shortcut icons. I want to
take off the shield tag. How to?
 
I suspect that shield means the program requires administrative permissions
to run, but without knowing what program icons the shields are on I am only
guessing.
 
Maybe you are wrong, I choose "Run this program as an administrator" in
properties of some program, but the shield is always on it. I guessed it's
about the windows firewall. However, it isn't useful that I add the program
which shortcut icon has shield to "windows firewall exceptions".
 
How dare you say that, Colin is never wrong.

hahahahahah said:
Maybe you are wrong, I choose "Run this program as an administrator" in
properties of some program, but the shield is always on it. I guessed it's
about the windows firewall. However, it isn't useful that I add the program
which shortcut icon has shield to "windows firewall exceptions".
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The windows shield is displayed on programs that automatically ask for
permission to run (elevate) every time they are started.

I am not aware of any way to remove this icon from such programs, without
changing their behavior.

- JB

Vista Support FAQ
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
 
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