lost icon that switches you to the desktop from the quick ..

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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about 3 years old, and I noticed that the "show the desktop" icon had been
replaced by a generic windows icon and clicking on it resulted in the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

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

Thanks a million, Tom!


"Tom Porterfield" <tpporter@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:hrmozx0ut3im.dlg@tpportermvps.org...
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:44:42 -0400, Mike Hollywood wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> 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.