Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Restore Show Desktop Shortcut

I accidentally lost shortcut button "Show Desktop" from Windows XP Taskbar's Quick Launch section. I tried various probabilities and combination but couldn't restore it. Though Windows+D command was handy but I wanted my shortcut button back. Finally after some googling got a simple solution ...

Create a file with name "Show Desktop.scf" with following contents:
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

Drag this file to Quick Launch area and it works.

Another simple way:
click Start>Run and type this command: regsvr32 /n /i:U shell32 and done.



2 comments:

web designing said...

Its a very useful post and the command you mention here is a very nice and informative thing!
I am a Web Designing expert and i like these kind of blogs!
Thanks for sharing!

Web Solutions said...

This is good short cut command that will be used for restoring short cut while working in the windows environment.