text: i accidentally deleted the show/hide desktop button from my quick launch bar.  how do i get it back? i accidentally deleted the show/hide desktop button from my quick launch bar.  how do i get it back? open a text file in note pad type the text between lines in that file --------- [shell] command=2 iconfile=explorer.exe,3 [taskbar] command=toggledesktop ----------- save the file as "desktop.scf" (must give double quote, otherwise notepad will add .txt at the end)  you have the icon back :)  riz