Show Desktop Icon in '98

Shred

Just a quick question that i figured one of you fine people might be able to help me with

My girlfirend's Pc is running Win/98 (second edition) and she has no 'show desktop' icon on the quick launch bar. I was running the same O/S myself, with the same version of IE on the same make of PC (Dell dimension) and i had the icon. It's a bit of a nuisance, as every time you need to go back to the desktop you have to minimize all windows first.

It's nothing major, just something that's been bugging me for a while.

Cheers.

seamus

Yeah that was bugging me for a while too. If you go into your own machine and right click on the icon, and look at its properties, it's called a 'Windows Explorer Command'. If you look at the file in notepad, it should say:

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

Now I know that to make a DOS command file like this, you would put a .bat extension on it, but I don't know about a Windows command. Unless someone else tells you how to make a windoze command file, copy the shortcut to a floppy and transfer it over. Simple

Lucutus

Use your keyboard!

Windows Key and D

Dustaz

Pld SuperShortcutLuc! never knew that one

OK Lads, heres one that im not even sure exists. When i used a mac (dont slag, twas great) I could close every open window by alt clicking the close box on one of them. Any way to do this in windows?

Shred

That's great Seamus and Lucutus,

Thanks for your help!

ps: It's still odd that one system doesn't have the icon, even though they're both basically identical

Thanks again!

dahamsta

As far as I remember, it should be included in a default install of 98SE, so it was probably deleted. Just create a file as per Seamus' instructions, name it "Show Desktop.scf" and dump it into your Quick Launch folder. That should do it. If it doesn't, you've got a manky old copy of Explorer.

adam

leeroybrown

I generally use:

Windows Button + M

This minimises all windows.

Windows Button + Shift + M

This reopens previously unminimised windows.