When the arrow icon appears in the upper right corner of your iPhone, it means that an app is using location services. There are a few variations of the arrow icon, and different types or colors mean that your location has been accessed in different ways.

Creating a shortcut in Windows automatically adds an arrow icon overlay to the shortcut icon. If you are customizing your desktop and don’t like it, you can remove the shortcut arrow icon from your desktop icons. Typically, the arrow icon helps differentiate between a file or application and a shortcut.

Is the arrow you are seeing the one shown below, if so, that is the standard icon overlay in Windows 10 to indicate the item is a shortcut to the file, not the actual file It is completely normal for those arrows to appear in all versions of Windows and there is no setting in Windows to remove those arrows