Vista - Creating shortcut to the Desktop

That's my quandry. I'm sure it's really easy but haven;t managed to find a clear answer. I simply want a Desktop icon in my toolbar which will take me there; just like I used to have in the good old days. I have Outlook, media player and internet shortcut icons and they work fine. Take me back to the Desktop! Hope you can help. Thanks in advance Ogster

Hello Ogster,

This tutorial may be able to help you. It will show you how to create a "Show Desktop" shortcut that you can place in Quick Launch or where ever.

Show Desktop

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Hi,

Right click an empty area of the desktop- select New>Shortcut. Click Browse, and in the window that pops up click on Desktop, then OK and Next.

Do you not already have a Desktop shortcut on your quick launch bar, next to the Start orb? This is the one that switches between open windows and your desktop - follow Shawns tutorial for that.

Hope it helps

SIW2

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; How-To Geek Registry Hacks
; Add the IE Icon to the Desktop in Windows Vista

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
"{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000


You can save above as REG file then execute or just add directly to the
registry.

Pavel




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