If you’re activating Quick Launch bar, Windows puts Show Desktop shortcut on there as standard shortcut. This shortcut is very useful for me. Because if you want to open a shortcut where located on Desktop, you don’t need to minimize your opened windows one by one. In fact, you can also press Windows + M keys to minimize all your opened windows. But I thought Show Desktop icon is more efficient than press those keys combination. In this article, I want write how to create Show Desktop shortcut if you delete it accidentally.

By default, Quick Launch has these standard shortcuts.

And here are steps to re-create Show Desktop shortcut:
1. Open your Notepad, and then write this script or you can copy-paste text below:

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

2. Save it by click File –> Save menu.

3. In Save As dialog, enter ShowDesktop.scf as its file name and save it to Desktop and then click OK button.

4. Now, you’ve had a ShowDesktop shortcut on Desktop. To put the shortcut to your Quick Launch bar, just click and drag it to it.

5. And it’s done!