Jan 2 2008

How To Get Your Show Desktop Icon Back in Vista

I’ve deleted my Show Desktop Icon quite a few times by accident maybe you have too so today’s tip will show you how to get it back.

Right click an empty spot on your desktop and choose new > text document.
Copy and paste this text into the new document.[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop
Name the file Show Desktop.scf and save it to your desktop.
Drag the resulting new Icon back to your Quick launch Bar.

TAGS:

Luis said:

If you can’t see the Show Desktop icon, try displaying more of the Quick Launch toolbar by clicking the double chevron icon . If that doesn’t work, you might need to add the Quick Launch toolbar by right-clicking an empty area on the taskbar, pointing to Toolbars, and then clicking Quick Launch so that it has a check mark next to it.

November 17th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Kelvin Tan said:

That is very effective…Thank you very much…^_^

March 25th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Danisha said:

Thank you this was the4 fastest way to get it done a lot of sties wanted you to download some random zip file.

Thanks a loty

August 6th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
BL said:

WOW. That was easy.

March 1st, 2011 at 6:43 pm
Michelle said:

Thank you so much. I have tried a bunch of different “quick fixes” that i had found on google and this is the first one that has actually worked. Much appreciated!

June 13th, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Sai said:

Hi Kevin, Thanks for the tip.
I have done as per your instruction and I got the Show Desktop Icon.
I have dragged and dropped the icon in the quick launch bar.
But, when I click on the icon nothing happens. The icon does not work. It is not showing the desktop.

Please advice.

Thanks…

December 23rd, 2012 at 7:50 pm

Sponsors