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If someone has deleted the Show Desktop Icon (usually found in the task bar) is ther another location within Windows to assist with the recreation of the icon?

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by t. e. walker

Why don't you post this on the Technical Q&A section of this site? That is why it is there, after all. This section is for discussion. We can discuss weird problems with deleted icons, or users deleting things in general, or people trying to get technical answers without giving up tech points, here, but that would hardly help you.

by mm212

If using Windows 2000, you can find it under c:\documents and settings\default user\application data\microsoft\internet explorer\quicklaunch. Just copy it from there to the quicklaunch folder of the profile of the user that deleted it.

OR...if you can't find it anywhere (again, this is on Windows 2000) bring up a command prompt, edit "Show Desktop.scf" and in it, put the following:

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

Save it and place it on thequicklaunch bar.

by stuart_at_oz

It's a plain text file with some commands in it!

Just create a text file, put the following cose in it:

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

[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

and save it with an extension of .SCF.

You don't have to call it Show Desktop.scf, but that would be the logical thing to use.

Anyone have any other commands that can be used in these SCF files?

Stu

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