Accidentally deleted your Show Desktop Icon on the Taskbar ? Here is a way to get back the “Show Desktop” shortcut onto the Quick Launch Panel on the Taskbar in Windows XP :
- Open up notepad or a text editor.
- Copy-Paste the following lines of code into a new file
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop - Then, save the file as showdesk.scf and move it to some place like windows folder.
- Then, Create a Shortcut to the showdesk.scf file.
- Finally, just drag and drop the shortcut into your Quick Launch panel or copy-paste it wherever you want it to be.
Awesome! This worked like a charm! Thanks a lot bud:)
Worked like a charm. I had manually created a shortcut to the desktop, but it opened as a window of the desktop file not the XP “Desktop.” You instructions worked like a charm. My comfort index is now back at a 10. Thank you!
Thanks for the tip – any reason not to save the new file on the desktop and simply drag it to the taskbar?
Thank u lot..it really helps me and also thank u for ur kind service….
thanks buddy its really useful and helping
thank you for the information.
Thanks … I’ve been trying to figure that one out for a while, such a great help.
Thank you for the great share. It is very very usuful.
Works a treat, thanks
Thankyou so much. Many thanks
thanks for this helpful code,i restore my desktop icon into taskbar.
thanks again.
Works and looks like new – thanks a million!
thanks. was very useful.
i tried what u said but there is already one of those .scf files out there somewhere on my computer so i did what u said, put it on my desktop and dragged the file onto my taskbar(which created a shortcut to the .scf on my desktop) then i deleted the .scf file on my desktop so the shortcut had nowhere to go to.. so it would search for the original file that is there when you install windows.. and it worked
.. but major thanks to thinkDJ for i could not have ever figured this out on my own :S.
thats is awesome,thanks dude
Fantastic information! Thank you very much!
Thanks a lot man. that was really helpful!
Thanks a lot, NICE!
hi,
highly obliged for your support.thank you very much.
Thanks a lot “thinkdj”, I can live a much easier life now
thankyuou..
You’re welcome Murali
An useful one. Deleted by mistake sometime back and have not tried recreating it. I have done it now. Thank you.