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| Junior Member | Minimise All Desktop Shortcut? Does anybody know how I can get a "minimise all" shortcut on my desktop (or quick launch bar), rather than using the "Show Desktop" icon? i.e. I want a shortcut that performs the action of pressing Win+M. I know that if I wanted to get a "Show Desktop" icon I'd create a new text document and type: Code: [Shell] Command=2 IconFile=Point_Me_to_desired_icon [Taskbar] Command=ToggleDesktop Thanks, Sam |
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| Member | Re: Minimise All Desktop Shortcut? OK, i went through all the possibilities as creating a vbs script which could launch a scf file, then open sidebar.exe. Though it worked fine i was not really satisfied with the method as it uses a trick vs the Windows Key + M which uses the system. Then i remembered that i had the shell apllications commands somewhere, did not find them but remembered some simple commands and just wrote this very small vbs script which seems to work fine. Open Notepad, copy/paste these lines: Dim WshShell Set shell = wscript.CreateObject("Shell.Application") Shell.MinimizeAll Save as ShowDesktop.vbs for example, anywhere on your hdd. Then create a shortcut on your desktop which refers to the vbs file, name it Show Desktop, change the icon to one of those that you can find in explorer.exe (or the icon of your choice in any library) and put this shortcut in your quick launch bar and delete the original one (you could put it back whenever you want). That's all! Hope it helps. |
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