Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Restore Show Desktop icon deleted from Quick Launch in Task bar

Most of us use the quick launch facility available in Windows (XP). The quick launch provides icons such as desktop, internet explorer, windows media player etc near the start button in the taskbar.



The show desktop icon is the mostly used one by me as it is a good tool to display the desktop screen at once without closing any of the explorer windows. Last night it got accidently deleted and I replaced it in the following way.

Open Notepad and enter the following text:

[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

Save the new file as Show Desktop.scf with file type as "All files". Drag and drop the icon on the Quick Launch bar and it appears.

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