"Mike Williams" <M***@WhiskyAndCoke.com> wrote in message
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> > I accidentally blew away the shortcut to the desktop which
> > minimizes all open windows and shows the desktop in W2000.
>
> I don't use Win2K, but I imagine it will be similar to WinXP (at least in
> this respect). Go to My Computer (or double click the main drive) and do a
> search for "Show Desktop" (including the quotes). When you find it
(probably
> more than one of them) drag its icon out of the "found files" window and
> drop it onto the left side of the task bar (before you release the the
left
> mouse button to perform the drop, play about with the left Shift and Ctrl
> keys until you get a little "+" sign by the icon you are about to drop, to
> ensure that you are dropping a copy of it rather than moving it or
creating
> a shortcut).
>
> Mike
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>
>
>

>"Jim Edgar" <djedgarRemoveT***@cox.net> wrote:
>> Open Notepad and paste in the following script:
>
>[Shell]
>Command=2
>IconFile=explorer.exe,3
>[Taskbar]
>Command=ToggleDesktop
>
>> Save the file onto your desktop as Show Desktop.scf
>>
>> You can then move or copy it to any directory you want.
>
>To put it back into the Quick Launch, just copy and paste the
>following line into an Explorer address bar...
>
>%appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
>
>Then create the shortcut there, or paste the shortcut there.
>
>Jim Carlock
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