Do you want to restore the Desktop Icon in your taskbar?

Posted on October 22, 2007 
Filed Under XP Tips & Tricks

It happened to all of us, a new install or a rebuild and all of sudden your Desktop Icon is missing from your taskbar and you just can’t get it back up there.

Since the Desktop Icon isn’t a normal program or a normal shortcut you have to do it a little different from what you are used to do.

What you’ll need to do is create a scf file in Notepad and save it to where the Show Desktop Icon should be.

 

How to Create a Show Desktop Icon.

Open Notepad by clicking on Start -> All Programs -> Accessories and Notepad or right click and create a new text document.

Then type in these lines in your document.

 

[Shell]

Command=2

IconFile=explorer.exe,3

[Taskbar]

Command=ToggleDesktop

 

Than you’ll need to save the file with the name "Show Desktop.scf" in the folder

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\ Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ Quick Launch

Your user account name goes where it says "username".

The Show Desktop Icon should reappear next to your Start Button.Lost-desktop-icon-picture1

 

 

 

 

 

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