Restore Show Desktop Icon to the Quick Launch toolbar

I recently had a friend who was messing around with his desktop and accidentally deleted the Show Desktop icon from his quick launch toolbar. This useful little icon minimizes all open windows so you can get to your desktop quickly. It is not really a application but instead a script that causes all that minimizing goodness.

To restore the scirpt and icon do the following:

  1. Open Wordpad and copy in the following text:[Shell]
    Command=2
    IconFile=explorer.exe,3
    [Taskbar]
    Command=ToggleDesktop
  2. Now save the file in the following location:%UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\InternetExplorer\Quick Launchand with the name Show Destop.scf

    Note: The %UserProfile% is a variable that designates where the users profile resides. For most this will be C:\Users\username but if you want to know for sure go to a command prompt and use the set userprofile command which will return the correct path.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 at 5:00 am and is filed under Vista Tips. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Restore Show Desktop Icon to the Quick Launch toolbar”

  1. Daniel Says:
    March 1st, 2008 at 10:41 pm

    thanks a ton. very helpful info. i had deleted the desktop icon and tried many ways to replace it but without sucess until i stumbled across your site.

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