{"id":1734,"date":"2009-11-16T21:07:44","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T05:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2009-12-01T10:18:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T18:18:01","slug":"how-to-restore-the-show-desktop-icon-in-the-quick-launch-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/how-to-restore-the-show-desktop-icon-in-the-quick-launch-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Restore the Show Desktop Icon in the Quick Launch bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you accidentally drag the Show Desktop icon from your Quick Launch bar in Windows XP and then try to drag it back , it only creates a shortcut to the Show Desktop icon. Which means that you can&#8217;t delete the icon that you dragged on your desktop otherwise the Show Desktop icon won&#8217;t work because it&#8217;s only a shortcut. Here&#8217;s what you can do to quickly restore the Show Desktop icon.<\/p>\n<p>1. Copy the following code in Notepad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[Shell]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Command=2<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">IconFile=explorer.exe,3<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[Taskbar]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Command=ToggleDesktop<\/p>\n<p>2. Save the file as <strong>Show Desktop.scf<\/strong> in the folder <span id=\"intellitxt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">C:\\Documents and Settings\\<em>Username<\/em>\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Quick Launch<\/span><\/strong>, where <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Username<\/strong> <\/span>is the account name that you are logged in as. For example, if you are logged in as Matt, the path to the folder will be &#8220;<\/span><span id=\"intellitxt\">C:\\Documents and Settings\\Matt\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Quick Launch.&#8221; You should now\u00a0see the Show Desktop icon in the Quick Launch bar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Make sure that when you save the file in Notepad you change the Save as Type to &#8220;All files&#8221;, otherwise it will add the .txt extension to the file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you accidentally drag the Show Desktop icon from your Quick Launch bar in Windows XP and then try to drag it back , it only creates a shortcut to the Show Desktop icon. Which means that you can&#8217;t delete the icon that you dragged on your desktop otherwise the Show Desktop icon won&#8217;t work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,11,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desktop","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-xp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}