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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 :)

Sun Feb 27, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   


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

Sun Feb 27, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

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

Tue Mar 8, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

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

Tue Mar 8, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   


Use MS TweakUI


QUOTE (soleimanian)

How to restore Show Desktop icon.  :D
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 :D
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Thu Mar 10, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

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

thanks

Sat Aug 20, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

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.

Sun Aug 21, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

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!

Sun Aug 21, 2005    Reply    New Discussion   

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

Fri Dec 28, 2007    Reply    New Discussion   

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

Sun Feb 3, 2008    Reply    New Discussion   

QUOTE (jeffc)

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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Awesome. I once accidentally deleted my desktop icon thingum. I tried to restore it by making a new icon, and redirecting it to the document and settings/desktop folder.

Alas, it only opened the desktop folder in explorer. Never really found out how to restore it. Drove me nuts because I figured it would be a -somewhat- easy to find function. Thanks for sharing!

Mon Feb 4, 2008    Reply    New Discussion   

Thanks for this brilliant...!! ;)

Thu May 15, 2008    Reply    New Discussion   

That helped me alot Soleimanian! Thank you!


-reply by stinkoman

Wed May 7, 2008    Reply    New Discussion   

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

Wed Sep 3, 2008    Reply    New Discussion   

A few months ago the show desktop icon was disappeared from the task bar of my PC. I don’t know how that happened. I got a solution of this problem in Google.

Here is how I recovered the 'Show Desktop' button:
http://www.completepcpedia.com/restore_show_desktop.html

Wed Dec 15, 2010    Reply    New Discussion   

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