Saturday, September 13, 2008

Restore "Show Desktop" icon in Quick launch

You may accidentally delete the Show Desktop icon in the quick launch bar.
You can restore it by the following methods.

Method 1:

1. From the Start menu, select Run.
2. Type (or Copy and Paste) the following:

regsvr32 /n /i:U shell32.dll

3. now hit Enter.

Method 2:

1. Open Notepad.
2. Copy and paste the following:

[Shell]

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

3. Save the file with name Show Desktop. Change the extension from .txt to .scf .

4. Drag this file to the Quick Launch area.
OR
Copy that file to this folder:
%Appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch (Copy and paste this Run to get to the folder directly)

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