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AiKscroll

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Posted: August 20th, 2005, 7:33 am

Joined: June 6th, 2005, 11:35 pm
Posts: 179
Location: Northern Virginia

Just a quick tip for those who write scripts for games. If you want to avoid having to alt-tab or WinButton out of games just assign a hotkey to run this program:

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Show Desktop.scf

It is the shortcut to the Windows function 'Show Desktop', which you wouldn't be able to click the shortcut for if you were in a full-screen game.

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toralf

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Posted: August 20th, 2005, 8:06 am

Joined: January 31st, 2005, 9:50 am
Posts: 3910
Location: Bremen, Germany

Hi AiKScroll,

Thanks for the tip.

I was hoping you would provided a small working script. With system variables, so it independed of the system your are using, etc.
So that newbies can immediatly use it. :)

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AiKscroll

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Posted: August 20th, 2005, 8:59 am

Joined: June 6th, 2005, 11:35 pm
Posts: 179
Location: Northern Virginia

Hmm... heres a simple script

Quote:

$LWin:: ; any key, I chose LWin though
IfWinActive, My Game ; change to the name of your window
{
Run, C:\Documents and Settings\%A_ComputerName%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Show Desktop.scf
}
return

P.S. - There must be a way to get the name of your computer. How is it done in AHK? Nevermind Found it!

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toralf

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Posted: August 20th, 2005, 1:00 pm

Joined: January 31st, 2005, 9:50 am
Posts: 3910
Location: Bremen, Germany

How about %USERPROFILE% ?

e.g.

Code:

Run, %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Show Desktop.scf 

It should be user name, not Computer name.

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AiKscroll

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Posted: August 20th, 2005, 10:50 pm

Joined: June 6th, 2005, 11:35 pm
Posts: 179
Location: Northern Virginia

Yeah that's better. I always use my one account, admin account. I guess other people could have many different users setup so essencially %USERPROFILE% is better than computer name.

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Guest2

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Posted: October 17th, 2005, 4:45 pm

FYI: the standard windows hotkey for "show the desktop" .scf is Winkey+D

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foerno

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Posted: July 16th, 2011, 4:45 pm

Joined: July 15th, 2011, 3:17 pm
Posts: 8

On my Windows 7 Home Premium, the path is the following:

Code:

Run, %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Shows Desktop.lnk

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SoggyDog

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Posted: July 18th, 2011, 5:15 pm

Joined: May 2nd, 2006, 11:16 pm
Posts: 800
Location: Greeley, CO

If you're having trouble finding or accessing 'Show Desktop.scf' you can make your own and link to it:

Code:

[shell]
command=2
iconfile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
command=ToggleDesktop

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