Restoring the ‘Show Desktop’ button

March 8th, 2007 - 13:23 | 5 comments

This was harder than I expected. Here’s the trick: create a new text file in Notepad, and copy this into it:

[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

Save the file as “Show Desktop.scf” (enter the quotes to force notepad to save it as an .scf), then drag it to the Quick Launch bar.

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5 Responses to “Restoring the ‘Show Desktop’ button”

1 Jeff Wright Jun 26th, 2007 at 4:03 pm

THANK YOU. I’ve deleted this button a number of times by mistake. When I created the new “Desktop” button this time it kept coming up with a desktop page w/all my desktop items, instead of minimizing all windows like I wanted. You, fine person, have saved my day… and the 3 other days I’ve spent time on this nonsense. Thanks for taking time to do this.

Jeff
2 Ryan Georges Jul 19th, 2007 at 11:48 pm

I copy paste this into notepad, then go to save it and it wont save as a .scf file…all I can change is the file type (which it only displays .txt and “all files”) and the encoding. any help?
3 Andrew Jul 19th, 2007 at 11:52 pm

I think it’ll work if you put the name in quotes while saving: “Show Desktop.scf”.
4 Ryan Georges Jul 19th, 2007 at 11:55 pm

Yes, that did work, thank you…I dont know why I didnt think of that…
5 Andrew Jul 19th, 2007 at 11:58 pm

No worries. Is far from obvious - just a trick you have to happen to know. I’ll update the above with it.

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