{"id":13254,"date":"2018-11-08T03:21:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T03:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=13254"},"modified":"2023-04-28T03:45:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T03:45:13","slug":"add-show-desktop-shortcut-to-taskbar-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/add-show-desktop-shortcut-to-taskbar-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Add &#8220;Show Desktop&#8221; Shortcut to Taskbar in Windows 11 \/ 10 \/ 8 \/ 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can I switch to the desktop without closing all opened windows? You can use the Windows key + D shortcut to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/3-ways-to-minimize-open-windows-applications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minimize all open windows at once<\/a> to view the desktop. If you want to get to the desktop with a single click instead of keyboard shortcut, you can add a &#8220;Show Desktop&#8221; shortcut icon to the taskbar in Windows 11 \/ 10 \/ 8 \/ 7.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Add &#8220;Show Desktop&#8221; Shortcut to Taskbar in Windows?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Right-click an empty area on your desktop and select <strong>New<\/strong> -&gt; <strong>Shortcut<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/new-desktop-shortcut.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"321\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7955\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Paste the following into the location box and click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<code>explorer.exe shell:::{3080F90D-D7AD-11D9-BD98-0000947B0257}<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/create-show-desktop-shortcut.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13257\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Name this shortcut something meaningful, and click <strong>Finish<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/show-desktop-shortcut-name.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"414\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13258\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The icon of your created shortcut should appear on the desktop. Right-click it and select <strong>Properties<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/show-desktop-shortcut-properties.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"385\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13259\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Under the <strong>Shortcut<\/strong> tab, click the <strong>Change Icon<\/strong> button at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/change-desktop-shortcut-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"468\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13260\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select the icon highlighted in blue, and click <strong>OK<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/show-desktop-shortcut-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"357\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13261\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, right-click on the &#8220;Show Desktop&#8221; shortcut on your desktop, and you can pin it to the taskbar or pin it to the Start Menu as a tile.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/pin-show-desktop-icon-to-taskbar.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13262\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every time you need to switch to the desktop, just click the &#8220;Show Desktop&#8221; icon in the taskbar and it will hide all your open windows without closing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/show-desktop-icon-in-taskbar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"99\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13263\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can I switch to the desktop without closing all opened windows? You can use the Windows key + D shortcut to minimize all open windows at once to view the desktop. If you want to get to the desktop with a single click instead of keyboard shortcut, you can add a &#8220;Show Desktop&#8221; shortcut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894,3,39],"tags":[4035,4036,5175,4037,4038],"class_list":["post-13254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","tag-add-show-desktop-icon-windows-10","tag-add-show-desktop-to-taskbar-windows-10","tag-add-show-desktop-to-taskbar-windows-11","tag-show-desktop-icon-windows-10","tag-switch-to-desktop-in-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13254"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19820,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13254\/revisions\/19820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}