lost icon that switches you to the desktop from the quick launch bar

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Mike Hollywood

Hi,
I was working on my sister's laptop today, it has xp home on it, and it is
about 3 years old, and I noticed that the "show the desktop" icon had been
replaced by a generic windows icon and clicking on it resulted in the
searhlight thing coming on and looking for a file, but I forget what the
name was.
I copied the file name into the search thing, and had it look for it on the
C drive, but it didn't find it.

Is there a way to fix this that isn't too technical?

Thanks,

Mike
 
Hi,
I was working on my sister's laptop today, it has xp home on it, and it is
about 3 years old, and I noticed that the "show the desktop" icon had been
replaced by a generic windows icon and clicking on it resulted in the
searhlight thing coming on and looking for a file, but I forget what the
name was.
I copied the file name into the search thing, and had it look for it on the
C drive, but it didn't find it.

Is there a way to fix this that isn't too technical?
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Sure. Open notepad and paste the following lines into the empty text
document:
============ BEGIN PASTE WITH NEXT LINE ==============
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop
============ END PASTE WITH PREVIOUS LINE ============

Save the file as "Show Desktop.scf" (making sure to use the quotes when you
type in the file name to save as. Copy the newly created Show Desktop.scf
to the quick launch bar. Voila.
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.
 
Thanks a million, Tom!


Tom Porterfield said:
Hi,
I was working on my sister's laptop today, it has xp home on it, and it
is
about 3 years old, and I noticed that the "show the desktop" icon had
been
replaced by a generic windows icon and clicking on it resulted in the
searhlight thing coming on and looking for a file, but I forget what the
name was.
I copied the file name into the search thing, and had it look for it on
the
C drive, but it didn't find it.

Is there a way to fix this that isn't too technical?
Click to expand...

Sure. Open notepad and paste the following lines into the empty text
document:
============ BEGIN PASTE WITH NEXT LINE ==============
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop
============ END PASTE WITH PREVIOUS LINE ============

Save the file as "Show Desktop.scf" (making sure to use the quotes when
you
type in the file name to save as. Copy the newly created Show Desktop.scf
to the quick launch bar. Voila.
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.
Click to expand...
 
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