Incase you have lost the "Show Desktop" icon on your taskbar and uncomfortable without it, we have two ways with which you can get it back on your taskbar: 1. To make things simple, we provide you with the download link, wherein all you have to do is to click below on this link, download the file to your hard disk, unzip it and run it on your computer and your 'show desktop' icon is back to your system tray to access! Download Show Desktop Else, the second way to get it back is by following the steps illustrated below: 2. Open your notepad and copy this code from here and paste it in there: [Shell] Command = 2 IconFile = explorer.exe, 3 [Taskbar] Command = ToggleDesktop Once done, save the file as “Show Desktop.scf” to the path as shown here: C:\ Documents and Settings\“Username“\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch [username is the name with which you have logged into your computer] On saving and closing the notepad the 'show desktop' icon will reappear on your taskbar.