Windows Annoyance (part 5)

In Windows XP, there was an convenient Show Desktop that minimizes everything that is running and give you the desktop, where you may put icons to quickly access your files. Oh it has been gone for a long time. The icon is gone, but the functionality is still there for Windows 7. You have to click all the way to the right-hand-side, to the right of the clock to get to it, and it is not even clear. See details here. Ok, I actually don't use this too much so I didn't even notice with a couple years banging on Windows 7, and this tradition carries to Windows 8.

Windows XP	Windows 7 & 8

I refuse to give in. Computer should work for me. Not the other way around. I want to add the minimize shortcut icon back down in the task bar.

A two line VBScript will do the trick:

Set shell = wscript.CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Shell.MinimizeAll

Ok, create such script, drag to the taskbar... Alas it doesn't work, it gives you a wacky popup instead.

To overcome this, you need to create a shortcut, then make that call: wscript.exe minizeall.vbs, and then you can drag to the taskbar. Find pretty icons in %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll. You are a real old timer if you remember moricons.dll