Lost the "minimize windows" icon in taskbar

[Lee Shipman]

In WinXP Home, I've enabled Quick Launch on the taskbar/start menu, and have
always had an icon which allowed minimizing all open windows to the taskbar.
That icon no longer appears in the taskbar; I must have accidentally deleted
it. Is there a registry fix for reinstalling that?

Thanks...Lee

 

[WTC]

How to Recreate the Show Desktop on the Quick Launch Bar
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190355/EN-US/

 

[S.Sengupta]

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm

regards,

ssg MS-MVP

 

[Kelly]

Restore/Add Show Desktop to Quick Launch (Line 61) Right hand side
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Or go to Start/Run and type in: regsvr32 /n /i:U shell32

Manual Edit:

Copy and paste the five lines below into Notepad.

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

Then save it as Show Desktop.scf and drag it to your quick launch bar.

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All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

 

[Lee Shipman]

Thanks to all who responded. Problem solved! (I KNEW you'd come thru.)

Lee