soleimanian 0 Report post Posted February 27, 2005 How to restore Show Desktop icon. Show Desktop icon is different from other icons, and usually you canât restore it If Show Desktop icon be deleted casually , you can restore it by :Open notepad and copy and paste below 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 WindowsBe successfulSoleimanian Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
szupie 0 Report post Posted February 27, 2005 Interesting. How did you learn to do that? Experiments or read it somewhere else? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deivid1405241470 0 Report post Posted March 8, 2005 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dooga1405241478 0 Report post Posted March 8, 2005 Wow, thank you, because I accidentally deleted that! (What a coiencidence or however you spell that word...) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted March 10, 2005 Use MS TweakUI How to restore Show Desktop icon. Show Desktop icon is different from other icons, and usually you canât restore it If Show Desktop icon be deleted casually , you can restore it by : Open notepad and copy and paste below 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 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nue1 0 Report post Posted August 20, 2005 Thank you now i don't have to reinstall the window all over again because I sometimes accidently shift+delete the show destopthanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
solankyno1 0 Report post Posted August 21, 2005 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
saxsux 0 Report post Posted August 21, 2005 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! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted December 28, 2007 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jeffc 0 Report post Posted February 3, 2008 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HiddenKenshin 0 Report post Posted February 4, 2008 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 iconAwesome. 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! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted May 7, 2008 That helped me alot Soleimanian! Thank you!-reply by stinkoman Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted May 15, 2008 Thanks for this brilliant...!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted September 3, 2008 Replying to soleimanianI 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jeanstephen26598 0 Report post Posted December 15, 2010 (edited) 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 Edited December 15, 2010 by Jeanstephen26598 (see edit history) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
