{"id":218,"date":"2005-05-19T16:02:04","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T20:02:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:44","slug":"show_desktop_shortcut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2005\/05\/19\/show_desktop_shortcut\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Desktop Shortcut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>As strange as this may seem, I am being found the most for the search term &#8220;Show Desktop Shortcut&#8221;. For those who missed it, I have an article on the main <a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/\">PCIN.net<\/a> site called <a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/help\/articles\/desktopshortcut.php\">Recreate the Show Desktop Shortcut<\/a> (reproduced below):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Did you know that Show Desktop is actually a script (technically Microsoft refers to it as a Windows Explorer Command)? If your Show Desktop item has been deleted, you can re-create the script quite easily. Or perhaps you&#8217;d like to create a Show Desktop item in a different folder. Simply follow these steps:<\/p>\n<p>Use Notepad to create a text file with the following contents:<br \/>\n[Shell]<br \/>\nCommand=2<br \/>\nIconFile=explorer.exe,3<br \/>\n[Taskbar]<br \/>\nCommand=ToggleDesktop<\/p>\n<p>Save the file as Show Desktop.scf. (You can name it something else if you prefer, but make sure you use the .scf file extension.)<\/p>\n<p>You can save the file where you want, and then create a shortcut on your Quick Launch toolbar.<\/p>\n<p>You will also need to make sure that the SCF file extension is set up properly in Windows. The settings should be as follows:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pcin.net\/help\/articles\/images\/scf_dde.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As strange as this may seem, I am being found the most for the search term &#8220;Show Desktop Shortcut&#8221;. For those who missed it, I have an article on the main PCIN.net site called Recreate the Show Desktop Shortcut (reproduced below): Did you know that Show Desktop is actually a script (technically Microsoft refers to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-software-tips","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}