You should now see the Quick Launch bar appear at the far right of the taskbar with the words “Quick Launch”.ģ. %AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch Now copy and paste the following line into the Folder box in the dialog that pops up and click on Select Folder. Go ahead and right-click on an empty part of the taskbar and click on Toolbars and then New Toolbar.Ģ. Either way, if you want it back in Windows 7 along with the Show Desktop shortcut, you can do it by following the steps below.ġ. It basically looks like a better version of the quick launch toolbar, so most people don’t really care to enable the toolbar at all. The reason Microsoft removed the toolbar is because you can now pin apps to the taskbar like shown below. Now let’s talk about Windows 7 and Windows 8. Now simply take the icon from wherever you saved it and drag it back onto the Quick Launch toolbar and you’re back in business! Quick Launch Toolbar in Windows 7 and Windows 8 The file name should be Show Desktop.scf. If you don’t choose All Files, Notepad will automatically append a. Make sure to choose All Files in the Save as type dropdown box. On the File menu, click Save As, and then save the file to your desktop as Show Desktop.scf. In Notepad, type the following text on individual lines:ģ. Click Start, click Run, type notepad, and then click OK.Ģ. If you’re missing the Show Dekstop icon, you can get it back by following these steps:ġ. Simply right click on the taskbar and choose “ Lock the Taskbar” again to get rid of the handles! Restore “Show Desktop” on Quick Launch toolbar Now you’ll see at the left and right side of the toolbar, two dotted “handles” that you can click on and drag to extend the size to your preference. Again, right click on the taskbar and you’ll see that “ Lock the Taskbar” is checked. In order to extend the toolbar, you need to unlock the taskbar first.
Now you may also see that your icons are all not fitting and there is a > at the right end of the toolbar to see the rest of them. Simply drop it and it’ll fit itself into that position. Here you can see I was dragging Notepad from my Start menu to the toolbar and you can see the black vertical line between the other icons already there.
If you want to add programs to the toolbar, simply drag the icons from your desktop or from the Start menu onto the toolbar and you’ll see the the position becomes a solid black line. Remember, this is not going to delete your program, just the shortcut to the program. To delete an icon, simply right-click on the icon and click Delete. You can now delete and add programs to the Quick Launch bar. There is always an icon for the shortcut to desktop as shown here: You can hover over the icons if there are already some there. You should now see that the section to the right of the Start Button has a few icons. If Quick Launch is not checked, make sure to check it.
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