Bring My Show Desktop Shortcut Back

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!
   

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