AlanHo Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 I had a little icon in my quick launch taskbar which enabled me to instantly go back to the Desktop when I was in any other programme.The icon has vanished for unknown reasons - and I cannot recall how I put it there in the first place - so cannot replace it.Can someone please remind me of the trick required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gagaman Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Hope this helps:Rightclick on your TaskbarIn the menu, choose Toolbars - Quick launchIf not, try this link:http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=332 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 First of all check to see if you have this symbol on your quicklaunch toolbar >> if you do, click on it and see if your desktop icon has moved up a bit.If it's not there then you could try thishttp://www.theeldergeek.com/restore_show_desktop_icon.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted August 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 Thanks - as Gordon Ramsay would say - f.... sorted.I had a play with each recommended method - the only one that did not work for me was the right click on the task bar and the quick launch tick. When I unticked it - the whole quick launch bar vanished with all my quick launch prog icons - when I re-ticked it they came back again - in a different order - but the desktop icon was still missing.The link provided by gagaman worked OK - as did the script by Nellie. Thanks both. I have mentioned on the forum before that I keep a MS Word "Diary" for the computer - where I place on record all changes made to the computer, problems met and solutions found. It regularly gets me out of trouble - but for some reason I had not recorded how I placed the desktop icon in the quick launch tray in the first place - perhaps it is loaded by Windows on installation. I have now made a diary entry about how to recover the vanishing icon so I will not have to ask the question again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Blaze Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 btw, instead of clicking that icon, it is much faster to just press & hold the windows button on your keyboard then press d.... ( WINDOWS + D).... :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted August 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 btw, instead of clicking that icon, it is much faster to just press & hold the windows button on your keyboard then press d.... ( WINDOWS + D).... :lol:yeow, cripes, bloody 'ell - how simple. Thanks for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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