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How To Restore Desktop Icon In Quick Launch Bar & Methods to Backup your Registry
Posted Date: 19 Jan 2008 Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing Category: Computer & Technology
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Posted By: jalaj Member Level: Diamond
Rating:  Points: 5
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How To Restore Desktop Icon In Quick Launch Bar
In this mail, I’ll tell you how to get Desktop icon back if you delete Desktop icon from your Quick Launch bar.
Follow the steps below and you’ll restore your lost icon back in no time.
1. Open Notepad and type the following in the text area.
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer. exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDeskt op
Now save it as “Desktop Icon.SCF†(without the quotes) on your dektop. This new file will look like the Desktop Icon. Now, all you need to do is copy/paste this file in
C:\Documents and Settings\username\ Application Data\Microsoft\ Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
Note: username in the above location is your own User Account name. It differs on very computer.
Now open your Quick Launch bar and see. The desktop icon will be there now. Drag and drop at whatever position you want.
Methods to Backup your Registry
Registry Editor is an advanced tool used for viewing and changing settings in your system registry. It contains all the information, settings of your computer. Even your user account username and password is saved in the resgistry (if configured to store in the registry).
As Registry Editor allows you to add/modify registry, it is advisable that you only use it if GUI does not provide the option you are looking for. If you make some incorrect changes, your system may crash and break. So it’s always good to make a backup of your registries before making any changes in it.
Method 1: This method is mostly used when you are making changes to some specific area in the registry, but it can also be used to make full backups.
To backup a selected branch/key, follow the instructions below:
* Click Start, and then click Run.
* In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK
* Locate and then click the key that contains the value that you want to edit
* On the File menu, click Export.
* In the Save in box, select a location where you want to save the registry entries ( .reg ) files.
* In the File name box, type a file name, and then click Save.
Below the Save as type box, you will see Export Range. There you select the range you want to export. Select All if you want to backup all the settings, or select the second option, Selected Branch, to export only the selected branch.
Method 2: The other way to backup your registry is to use the System Restore tool in Windows. It restores your PC to a previous state (that you selected!), without losing anything, such as documents, history lists, favorites, or e-mail. This method is not reliable if you want to rollback the Registry changes made a longtime ago. So, I would better recommend using the first method for this case.
For more information about using the Backup utility to back up the system state, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
How to use Backup to back up files and folders on your computer in Windows XP
How to use the Backup utility to back up files and folders in Windows XP Home Edition
How to use the Backup feature to back up and restore data in Windows Server 2003
For more information about how to restore the system state from a backup, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
How to use Backup to restore files and folders on your computer in Windows XP
How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting
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