Lila,

First try this: Search your hard drive for "desktop.scf". Once you find it,
right-click, drag, and drop it into your Quick Launch bar. When you release
the mouse button, choose Create Shortcut(s) Here from the pop-up menu.

If you can't locate it, follow these instructions:

1. Open your favorite text editor. Notepad works well.

2. Use your mouse to select the following lines exactly as I've entered
them, and then right-click and choose Copy.

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

3. Click in the empty document in your text editor and choose Edit, Paste.

4. Choose File, Save As. For the name of the new file, enter "Show
Desktop.scf" (be sure to include the quotation marks). For the Save in
location, choose the C:\Windows\System folder (if you use Windows NT or
Windows 2000, you may need to select the C:\Winnt\System32 folder).

5. Close the text editor.

6. Open Windows Explorer, navigate to the Windows\System folder, and find
the Show Desktop.scf file you just created. Click to select that file.

7. Hold down the right mouse button and drag the Show Desktop.scf onto an
empty space on the Quick Launch bar. When you release the mouse button,
choose Create Shortcut(s) Here from the pop-up menu.

The Show Desktop icon now appears on the Quick Launch toolbar where it
belongs.

Sven Swanson, Sr.

Date:    Thu, 6 Dec 2001 19:23:36 -0500
From:    Lila Walls <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: quick launch tool bar

I had an icon in my quick launch tool bar for going directly back to my
desktop.  The icon was just gone one day.  I really need it back.  Any ideas
on how to get it back?  (It looked like a little paint pallet with a paint
brush.)
Thanks,
Lila


_________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com


      "Hold No Punches.." Rode brings you great shareware/freeware
        programs with his honest opinions in this weekly column.
                       http://freepctech.com/rode