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XP desktop Time/Date
Until recently I have my taskbar 3 "teirs" high at the bottom of the screen
and the time/day/date displayed on each of the teirs. I now only run the taskbar 1 teir high and have lost the day & date. I would like to have a time/abbr. day/date display back but without sacrificing so much screen as for 3 teirs. I have looked at a number of desktop arrangements, but all from what I saw want to give me a calender/day/ etc and a lot of other crap. Would someone please tell me if I can monkey with the MS code for the taskbar and have the basic time/day/month display in a single tier or else a no nonsense desktop display with basic info, no extraneous handles, call girl service or whatever wanted. regards and my thanks, Dave |
XP desktop Time/Date
I suppose you could try tampering with XP's code, either with a resource "hacker"
program or by some other reverse-engineering of WinXP... But it is definitely Windows default behaviour to only display the TIME on a one-bar setup and then only adding the DAY then the DATE as other tiers are added. But you could ditch Window's clock altogether and use a small (and free) program called TCLOCK.exe With this, you can configure loads of Taskbar-related stuff and takes up virtually no memory. (I like having the seconds ticking over in the taskbar clock - impossible with native WinXP!) Download TClock.exe (ZIP-file install) directly from : http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/t...t-040702-3.zip == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "David" wrote in message ... Until recently I have my taskbar 3 "teirs" high at the bottom of the screen and the time/day/date displayed on each of the teirs. I now only run the taskbar 1 teir high and have lost the day & date. I would like to have a time/abbr. day/date display back but without sacrificing so much screen as for 3 teirs. I have looked at a number of desktop arrangements, but all from what I saw want to give me a calender/day/ etc and a lot of other crap. Would someone please tell me if I can monkey with the MS code for the taskbar and have the basic time/day/month display in a single tier or else a no nonsense desktop display with basic info, no extraneous handles, call girl service or whatever wanted. regards and my thanks, Dave |
XP desktop Time/Date
I suppose you could try tampering with XP's code, either with a resource "hacker"
program or by some other reverse-engineering of WinXP... But it is definitely Windows default behaviour to only display the TIME on a one-bar setup and then only adding the DAY then the DATE as other tiers are added. But you could ditch Window's clock altogether and use a small (and free) program called TCLOCK.exe With this, you can configure loads of Taskbar-related stuff and takes up virtually no memory. (I like having the seconds ticking over in the taskbar clock - impossible with native WinXP!) Download TClock.exe (ZIP-file install) directly from : http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/t...t-040702-3.zip == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "David" wrote in message ... Until recently I have my taskbar 3 "teirs" high at the bottom of the screen and the time/day/date displayed on each of the teirs. I now only run the taskbar 1 teir high and have lost the day & date. I would like to have a time/abbr. day/date display back but without sacrificing so much screen as for 3 teirs. I have looked at a number of desktop arrangements, but all from what I saw want to give me a calender/day/ etc and a lot of other crap. Would someone please tell me if I can monkey with the MS code for the taskbar and have the basic time/day/month display in a single tier or else a no nonsense desktop display with basic info, no extraneous handles, call girl service or whatever wanted. regards and my thanks, Dave |
XP desktop Time/Date
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:35:15 -0000, "Tim Meddick"
wrote: I suppose you could try tampering with XP's code, either with a resource "hacker" program or by some other reverse-engineering of WinXP... But it is definitely Windows default behaviour to only display the TIME on a one-bar setup and then only adding the DAY then the DATE as other tiers are added. But you could ditch Window's clock altogether and use a small (and free) program called TCLOCK.exe With this, you can configure loads of Taskbar-related stuff and takes up virtually no memory. (I like having the seconds ticking over in the taskbar clock - impossible with native WinXP!) Download TClock.exe (ZIP-file install) directly from : http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/t...t-040702-3.zip I'll second the motion for TCLock, which is my favorite program of that type. But I'll add a word of caution: do not mix up TClock.exe with TCLockex.exe. Despite the similarity of their names, they are two different programs, and in my view, TClock is much better than TClockex. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
XP desktop Time/Date
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:35:15 -0000, "Tim Meddick"
wrote: I suppose you could try tampering with XP's code, either with a resource "hacker" program or by some other reverse-engineering of WinXP... But it is definitely Windows default behaviour to only display the TIME on a one-bar setup and then only adding the DAY then the DATE as other tiers are added. But you could ditch Window's clock altogether and use a small (and free) program called TCLOCK.exe With this, you can configure loads of Taskbar-related stuff and takes up virtually no memory. (I like having the seconds ticking over in the taskbar clock - impossible with native WinXP!) Download TClock.exe (ZIP-file install) directly from : http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/t...t-040702-3.zip I'll second the motion for TCLock, which is my favorite program of that type. But I'll add a word of caution: do not mix up TClock.exe with TCLockex.exe. Despite the similarity of their names, they are two different programs, and in my view, TClock is much better than TClockex. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
XP desktop Time/Date
Tim, Ken,
My thanks indeed. You have read me rather exactly I might say. TClock is about perfect with both the abbreviated day, then date and the 2400 clock. I know that XP, like myself, is getting long in the tooth, but surely someone sometime must have whispered this and lots of other gems in Mrs Gates' son's ear - Surely ?? Thankyou Dave "David" wrote in message ... Until recently I have my taskbar 3 "teirs" high at the bottom of the screen and the time/day/date displayed on each of the teirs. I now only run the taskbar 1 teir high and have lost the day & date. I would like to have a time/abbr. day/date display back but without sacrificing so much screen as for 3 teirs. I have looked at a number of desktop arrangements, but all from what I saw want to give me a calender/day/ etc and a lot of other crap. Would someone please tell me if I can monkey with the MS code for the taskbar and have the basic time/day/month display in a single tier or else a no nonsense desktop display with basic info, no extraneous handles, call girl service or whatever wanted. regards and my thanks, Dave |
XP desktop Time/Date
Tim, Ken,
My thanks indeed. You have read me rather exactly I might say. TClock is about perfect with both the abbreviated day, then date and the 2400 clock. I know that XP, like myself, is getting long in the tooth, but surely someone sometime must have whispered this and lots of other gems in Mrs Gates' son's ear - Surely ?? Thankyou Dave "David" wrote in message ... Until recently I have my taskbar 3 "teirs" high at the bottom of the screen and the time/day/date displayed on each of the teirs. I now only run the taskbar 1 teir high and have lost the day & date. I would like to have a time/abbr. day/date display back but without sacrificing so much screen as for 3 teirs. I have looked at a number of desktop arrangements, but all from what I saw want to give me a calender/day/ etc and a lot of other crap. Would someone please tell me if I can monkey with the MS code for the taskbar and have the basic time/day/month display in a single tier or else a no nonsense desktop display with basic info, no extraneous handles, call girl service or whatever wanted. regards and my thanks, Dave |
XP desktop Time/Date
David said this on 3/9/2010 5:40 PM:
Until recently I have my taskbar 3 "teirs" high at the bottom of the screen and the time/day/date displayed on each of the teirs. I now only run the taskbar 1 teir high and have lost the day& date. I would like to have a time/abbr. day/date display back but without sacrificing so much screen as for 3 teirs. I have looked at a number of desktop arrangements, but all from what I saw want to give me a calender/day/ etc and a lot of other crap. Would someone please tell me if I can monkey with the MS code for the taskbar and have the basic time/day/month display in a single tier or else a no nonsense desktop display with basic info, no extraneous handles, call girl service or whatever wanted. regards and my thanks, Dave You might try Alfa Clock. I think its better than Tclock. http://shareware.pcmag.com/product.p...teID%5Dpcm ag You have to get version 1.90 because later versions are not free. 1.90 was the last free version out. |
XP desktop Time/Date
David said this on 3/9/2010 5:40 PM:
Until recently I have my taskbar 3 "teirs" high at the bottom of the screen and the time/day/date displayed on each of the teirs. I now only run the taskbar 1 teir high and have lost the day& date. I would like to have a time/abbr. day/date display back but without sacrificing so much screen as for 3 teirs. I have looked at a number of desktop arrangements, but all from what I saw want to give me a calender/day/ etc and a lot of other crap. Would someone please tell me if I can monkey with the MS code for the taskbar and have the basic time/day/month display in a single tier or else a no nonsense desktop display with basic info, no extraneous handles, call girl service or whatever wanted. regards and my thanks, Dave You might try Alfa Clock. I think its better than Tclock. http://shareware.pcmag.com/product.p...teID%5Dpcm ag You have to get version 1.90 because later versions are not free. 1.90 was the last free version out. |
XP desktop Time/Date
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:45:17 GMT, "David" wrote:
Tim, Ken, My thanks indeed. You're welcome. Glad to help. You have read me rather exactly I might say. TClock is about perfect with both the abbreviated day, then date and the 2400 clock. I know that XP, like myself, is getting long in the tooth, but surely someone sometime must have whispered this and lots of other gems in Mrs Gates' son's ear - Surely ?? Thankyou Dave "David" wrote in message ... Until recently I have my taskbar 3 "teirs" high at the bottom of the screen and the time/day/date displayed on each of the teirs. I now only run the taskbar 1 teir high and have lost the day & date. I would like to have a time/abbr. day/date display back but without sacrificing so much screen as for 3 teirs. I have looked at a number of desktop arrangements, but all from what I saw want to give me a calender/day/ etc and a lot of other crap. Would someone please tell me if I can monkey with the MS code for the taskbar and have the basic time/day/month display in a single tier or else a no nonsense desktop display with basic info, no extraneous handles, call girl service or whatever wanted. regards and my thanks, Dave -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
XP desktop Time/Date
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:45:17 GMT, "David" wrote:
Tim, Ken, My thanks indeed. You're welcome. Glad to help. You have read me rather exactly I might say. TClock is about perfect with both the abbreviated day, then date and the 2400 clock. I know that XP, like myself, is getting long in the tooth, but surely someone sometime must have whispered this and lots of other gems in Mrs Gates' son's ear - Surely ?? Thankyou Dave "David" wrote in message ... Until recently I have my taskbar 3 "teirs" high at the bottom of the screen and the time/day/date displayed on each of the teirs. I now only run the taskbar 1 teir high and have lost the day & date. I would like to have a time/abbr. day/date display back but without sacrificing so much screen as for 3 teirs. I have looked at a number of desktop arrangements, but all from what I saw want to give me a calender/day/ etc and a lot of other crap. Would someone please tell me if I can monkey with the MS code for the taskbar and have the basic time/day/month display in a single tier or else a no nonsense desktop display with basic info, no extraneous handles, call girl service or whatever wanted. regards and my thanks, Dave -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
XP desktop Time/Date
I was aware of there being a similar product out, I rather hoped that posting the
direct download URL might have kinda squished all confusion over this...?!? == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message ... On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:35:15 -0000, I'll second the motion for TCLock, which is my favorite program of that type. But I'll add a word of caution: do not mix up TClock.exe with TCLockex.exe. ... clipped |
XP desktop Time/Date
I was aware of there being a similar product out, I rather hoped that posting the
direct download URL might have kinda squished all confusion over this...?!? == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message ... On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:35:15 -0000, I'll second the motion for TCLock, which is my favorite program of that type. But I'll add a word of caution: do not mix up TClock.exe with TCLockex.exe. ... clipped |
XP desktop Time/Date
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:58:27 -0000, "Tim Meddick"
wrote: I was aware of there being a similar product out, I rather hoped that posting the direct download URL might have kinda squished all confusion over this...?!? I would hope so, but with such similar names, I've seen lots of confusion over the two. So I thought that mentioning the other one would help avoid any mixup. "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message ... On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:35:15 -0000, I'll second the motion for TCLock, which is my favorite program of that type. But I'll add a word of caution: do not mix up TClock.exe with TCLockex.exe. ... clipped -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
XP desktop Time/Date
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:58:27 -0000, "Tim Meddick"
wrote: I was aware of there being a similar product out, I rather hoped that posting the direct download URL might have kinda squished all confusion over this...?!? I would hope so, but with such similar names, I've seen lots of confusion over the two. So I thought that mentioning the other one would help avoid any mixup. "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message ... On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:35:15 -0000, I'll second the motion for TCLock, which is my favorite program of that type. But I'll add a word of caution: do not mix up TClock.exe with TCLockex.exe. ... clipped -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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