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in the quick launch there is a button called 'show desktop'. it does the same as pressing the windows key + D.

I'd like to change it so that it does the same as windows key + M. more of a 'minimise all' than 'show desktop'.

I opened up the 'show desktop' thing in notepad and it had this inside.
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

I think all I have to do to get the desired effect is change 'toggledesktop' to something else. problem is, what is that something else. I've tried to find more commands but its been very difficult to find anything accurate. I usually end up with results about things I can type into the cmd window.

If anyone can find anything, or confirm that such a command doesn't exist, I'd be very grateful

It will be related to windows hot keys and im not all to sure if they can me re-mapped or not. remapping hot keys would most likely be the search terms you need to find out. I'll do a little searching myself when i can.

Okay here's the thing. ToggleDesktop is not a command, it is a script that is being called up. I am not sure if it is a VB or SCF script, or what, but I do know it is a script. So, in order to remap the icon, you need to know what the name of the script is, and call it up from the show desktop icon. I haven't found the name of the script, but there are some that people have written to accomplish such a thing. I would word my searches to include 'explorer" and "scripts" as opposed to "hot keys" or "commands".

Sound advice Axelation!

I managed to find some vbscript and what to do with it

put this:

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

into a notepad and save it as [name].vbs

Many thanks!!