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Friday, July 26, 2013

Restore the Desktop icons

Restore the Show Desktop icon to Quick Launch bar

Sometimes anyone of us can accidentally delete the Show Desktop icon which sits normally on the bottom left hand corner of the Taskbar.

Here are some easy methods to restore the icon:

Method 1:

Download ShowDesktop.scf from the link given

   
 
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wizknyt2hdo
 


and save it to your Desktop and then move the file to the Quick Launch folder which is located in your documents and settings you can easily locate in by pasting the following code in the run command here:

Code:
%Appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
Now just copy the downloaded file and paste in here. its DONE.

Method 2: Manually re-create the Show Desktop icon

Click Start, Run, and type Notepad.exe. Copy the following contents to Notepad.

Code:
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop
Save the file as "Show Desktop.scf" (with quotes, in order to prevent Notepad from appending .txt extension). Now, drag the file to the Quick Launch Toolbar.

Method 3: Using the Regsvr32 command

Click Start, Run and type the following command:

Code:
regsvr32 /n /i:U shell32.dll
The Show Desktop icon file should be available now

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