{"id":132,"date":"2010-06-26T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T15:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2010-11-17T20:14:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T20:14:46","slug":"to-re-create-the-show-desktop-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"To re-create the Show desktop icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/190355\">http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/190355<\/a><br \/>\nTo re-create the Show desktop icon yourself, follow these steps:<br \/>\n1.\tClick Start, click Run, type notepad in the Open box, and then click OK.<br \/>\n2.\tCarefully copy and then paste the following text into the Notepad window:<br \/>\n[Shell]<br \/>\nCommand=2<br \/>\nIconFile=explorer.exe,3<br \/>\n[Taskbar]<br \/>\nCommand=ToggleDesktop<br \/>\n3.\tOn the File menu, click Save As, and then save the file to your desktop as &#8220;Show desktop.scf&#8221;. The Show desktop icon is created on your desktop.<br \/>\n4.\tClick and then drag the Show desktop icon to your Quick Launch toolbar.<br \/>\nInformation for advanced users<\/p>\n<p>The Quick Launch toolbar uses the files in the following folder:<\/p>\n<p>%userprofile%\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Quick Launch<br \/>\nWorks for Windows Server 2003 as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/190355 To re-create the Show desktop icon yourself, follow these steps: 1. Click Start, click Run, type notepad in the Open box, and then click OK. 2. Carefully copy and then paste the following text into the Notepad window: [Shell] &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=132\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-notes","tag-show-desktop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}