How To Restore Show Desktop Icon.

soleimanian

Feb 27 2005, 07:39 PM

How to restore Show Desktop icon.

Show Desktop icon is different from other icons, and usually you can’t restore it
If Show Desktop icon be deleted casually , you can restore it by :
Open notepad and copy and paste below code :

CODE

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

Now, save your file as ShowDesktop.scf to following folder C:\ Document and Settings \ Username \ Application Data \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Quick Launch

And restart your Windows
Be successful
Soleimanian

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szupie

Feb 27 2005, 10:48 PM

Interesting. How did you learn to do that? Experiments or read it somewhere else?

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deivid

Mar 8 2005, 03:16 AM

I think maybe was experiment, if you have the button show desktop in quick launch bar, right click and hold, and move to desktop, then you make a copy, after that, open with notepad and you find the code for show your desktop.

Greets
Deivid

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Dooga

Mar 8 2005, 06:43 AM

Wow, thank you, because I accidentally deleted that! (What a coiencidence or however you spell that word...)

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jchip

Mar 10 2005, 06:27 PM

Use MS TweakUI

QUOTE (soleimanian @ Feb 27 2005, 07:39 PM)

How to restore Show Desktop icon.

Show Desktop icon is different from other icons, and usually you can’t restore it
If Show Desktop icon be deleted casually , you can restore it by :
Open notepad and copy and paste below code :

CODE

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

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Nue1

Aug 20 2005, 10:10 AM

Thank you now i don't have to reinstall the window all over again because I sometimes accidently shift+delete the show destop

thanks

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solanky

Aug 21 2005, 05:05 AM

This is really very nice information. I have seen many people of suffering to finding the show desktop icon after deleting it. At that type of situation we copy the show desktop icon from any other computer and paste it on the first computer. But now the information provided by Soleimanian is very good.
Thanks.

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saxsux

Aug 21 2005, 11:52 AM

That is so unbelievably useful! After accidently deleting my "Show Desktop" icon, I spent ages trying to find out how to restore it (to no avail).
I never realised the solution was so simple. Thank you soleimanian! Thanks very much!

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FeedBacker

Dec 28 2007, 06:37 PM

I don\
How To Restore Show Desktop Icon.

I am using Windows 2000 Professional.

I don't have folder Application Data, so I can't save it in the designated path. (Document and Settings \ Username \ Application Data \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Quick Launch)

But I can do it in Win XP.

Answer please.

Cora

-Cora

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jeffc

Feb 3 2008, 06:35 PM

There are another way to restore show desktop icon in quick launch bar:

Click Start -> Run and type regsvr32 /n /i:U shell32.dll and enter
Done! You just restore your Show Desktop icon

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iGuest

Sep 3 2008, 05:31 PM

Replying to soleimanian

I just copied this code to notepad, saved it as ShowDesktop.Scf to C: like you said. The icon showed right away in C:, so I copied it, pasted it to the desktop, then dragged it to quick launch. No reboot or anything works perfect right away, thanks!

-reply by chris