"Show Desktop" Icon Now On Desktop

[Guest]

I have no idea what I did, but the "show desktop" icon is now actually ON the
desktop and a shortcut is in the quicklaunch bar.

I followed instructions from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q190355/ and
successfully move the ShowDesktop.scf file to the QuickLaunch folder but it
has the "unknown" icon and will not work (the file shows up with the
"unknown" icon on my desktop, in the QuickLaunch toolbar and in the
QuickLaunch file).

Any help would be greatly appreciated. It's a little thing, but not being
able to fix it is really starting to annoy me.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please try the following link to Kelly's web site:

Line 61 - right hand side
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

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[Guest]

I tried that but while a "blank" icon appeared momentarily in the quicklaunch
area, it disappeared and I can't find it.

Any other advice/suggestions?

 

[Guest]

I found another post that provided a fix that worked for me. It was a
response posted by Carey Frisch [MVP] dated 4/14/05 "Show Desktop Icon on
Quick Launch Toolbar?" in which Carey included the following link:

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_showdesktop.htm

That worked and the "show desktop" icon is now working properly.

Thank you!

 

[Will Denny]

Hi Wendy

Glad your problem is solved. Both Kelly's & Doug's web site solve a lot of
problem for one hellava lot of people.

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