Show Desktop Icon in Windows 7

Are you guys annoyed with the new Show Desktop function in Windows 7? Yeah me too, the old button is gone. It's now moved to the bottom right of your screen. For me, it is so inconvenience because everything is on the left and suddenly if you want to go back to the desktop you have to move your cursor to the bottom right of your screen. However, there is also another way to make all your windows minimize (except the active window). Shaking the active window with your mouse will minimize all the other windows, by doing this you can see your desktop and the active window at once.

If you guys still want the old Show Desktop button, it is still possible. I'll show you how to pin the Show Desktop icon properly into your taskbar. I mean not the method that gives you a strange placement of the icon in the taskbar (image below).

The right placement of the icon will look like this :

So lets get started, shall we? Follow the steps...

1. Pin any icon to the taskbar.
2. Download the Show Desktop icon here or you can also do it yourself.

To do it yourself, open Notepad and paste the following code:

[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

When you save the file, select All Files from the drop down menu, and name the icon Desktop.scf

Whether you download or create the desktop file yourself, make sure to save it into this directory:

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar

4) Edit the Target Field to the following. Change the field yourusername to your Computer name. You can find this by opening the Start Menu and looking at the first item in the darkened area.

Computer name is shown as the first item on the right side (win7 for me)

Paste this code into the Target Field of your pinned icon properties. Make sure to change yourusername.

C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\Desktop.scf

5) Now we need to change the icon. Click on Change Icon and paste the following code into the Browse field and press Enter:

%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll

The Show Desktop icon is located somewhere near the middle. This was where mine is located:

6) You can also rename your icon to Show Desktop so you don’t get confused when editing the taskbar later on.

7) Your icon in the Taskbar will not change unless you log off and log back in or end the explorer.exe process in Task Manager. Regardless, the icon should function like the old “Show Desktop” icon.

If you’re a fan of keyboard shortcuts, Win+D shows the desktop too.

Source from Windows7center.com.