Archive for November, 2006

Restoring Show Desktop icon into Quick Launch Bar

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5 years ago
by Benedict Herold in

A Simple guide to restore accidentally deleted Show Desktop icon in Windows Quick Launch Bar.

Recently I ended up in deleting the Show Desktop icon from my Quick Launch Bar accidentally. I needed the button back in place badly since I mostly have lot of windows open most of the time. Show Desktop icon was a handy for accessing my Junk Desktop. So I was researching ways to restore my Show Desktop icon back in place and I have found the following solution.

Manually recreate the Show Desktop icon
Create a text file with the extension .scf (preferably Show Desktop.scf). SCF stands for Shell Command File. SCF files are executed by shell32.dll and the file extension is one of the special ones that remain hidden even if you instruct Windows to show file extensions. Paste the following code into the file.


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

Save the file and place the same in Quick Launch bar and now you’re done.

Using the Regsvr32 command

This one is pretty simple, just go to run prompt or command prompt and type in the following command.

regsvr32 /n /i:U shell32.dll

The regsvr32 command line tool used to register .dll as command components into the registry. The above command with instruct Windows to register shell32.dll with optional install string, which enables Show Desktop icon back into place.

The Show Desktop icon file should be available now automatically in Quick Launch bar after executing the regsvr32 command.

Finally I was able to access my desktop quickly as I wanted.

PageAddict :: Monitor Your Web Addiction in Firefox

2
5 years ago
by Benedict Herold in

A handy Firefox Extension PageAddict to monitor your web addiction.

Are you addicted to internet? Do you want to know your addiction? If yes here is a handy utility that monitors your web usage. PageAddict is a free Firefox extension which can give you a summary of your daily online activity. It generates reports based on the amount of time spend on each sites you visited.

PageAddict can be downloaded from here. It is just a 10k download. Once you install the Firefox extension you need to visit www.pageaddict.com to know your addition. There you’ll get the time you spent at each site, percentages of overall time and the option to apply tags. You can even categorize different sites and restrict how much time you spend in each category per day.

Now find your addiction level and try to do something productive :-)

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