Last night when my machine was bogged down and I became impatient, I inadvertently threw away my Show Desktop Icon that came with the Quick Launch Toolbar. There is no easy way to restore this, so I went searching online for a solution.
Here is what I found from Microsoft support:
1. Open the Notepad program so that you can write a text file
2. Cut-and-paste the following (the commands must be on different lines):
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop
3. On the File menu, click Save As
4. Change the Save as Type to All Files button. This will help ensure that Notepad does not append a .txt to the file name. If it does, just remove it when you are done saving.
5. Migrate to one of these two directories:
Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows 98
Windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Windows 2000, and Microsoft Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
Note that Username refers to the account name where you want to put the icon.
6. Save the file with the filename: Show Desktop.scf
7. Use Windows explorer to migrate to the folder where you just saved the file. Drag-and-Drop the file onto the Quick Launch Toolbar.
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
Posted under Programming, Software, Solutions
This post was written by drknuth on September 17, 2007
