taskbar clock

[bof]

I recently booted my XP Pro machine and there appears to have been a
corruption somewhere as the appearance of the desktop had changed,
colours, fonts, etc.. I've got most of it back to how it was but can't
find a way to get the taskbar clock back to its original format.


It now displays:

14:19
Friday


when it used to display:

14:19
12 March 2010


Anyone advise where the taskbar clock format can be configured?

Many thanks

 

[Bob I]

Control Panel, Regional and Language Options, Regional Options tab,
Customize button

 

[Craig S]

(I'm XP)....I Googled "Taskbar Clock Format". ----Look at Control panel/
Regional and Language Options/ Regional Options Tab--Customize and see if you
can't fix everything.

 

[bof]

Thanks for the reply, the short date format here is set to
"dd MMMM yyyy" and the long date is set to "dd MMMM yyyy" yet the desk
top clock shows "Friday"

 

[bof]

<Andrew, apologies for the email, mistakenly clicked "reply" instead of
"follow-up">




Thanks for the reply Andrew, Control Panel's Regional Settings was the
first place I tried and there the short date format is set to
"12/03/2010" and the long date is set to "12 March 2010" yet the desk
top clock shows "Friday"

 

[Bob I]

Then you'll need to make the Taskbar taller.

Thanks for the reply, the short date format here is set to
"dd MMMM yyyy" and the long date is set to "dd MMMM yyyy" yet the desk
top clock shows "Friday"

 

[bof]

Ah, thank you, getting closer now.

lifting the task bar to three rows I get:

19:23
Friday
12/03/2010

so any suggestions on how to get rid of "Friday" so I can go back to a
two row taskbar?

MTIA

 

[VanguardLH]

I recently booted my XP Pro machine and there appears to have been a
corruption somewhere as the appearance of the desktop had changed,
colours, fonts, etc.. I've got most of it back to how it was but can't
find a way to get the taskbar clock back to its original format.

It now displays:

14:19
Friday

when it used to display:

14:19
12 March 2010

Anyone advise where the taskbar clock format can be configured?

Many thanks

with a 2-row tall Windows taskbar, I've been stuck with time & day-of-week
(dow) forever with this setup. I've never seen the "dow, date" format of
which you speak. You sure you aren't asking about the balloon that appears
when you hover your mouse over the tray clock?

If you can't find an answer here that lets you change the dow string to a
"dow, date" (something that I'd be interested in, too), you might have to
replace the tray clock with a 3rd party offering, like:

http://www.sarbyxlabs.com/en/sarbyxtc.html (free)

I only trialed this last year sometime but didn't continue using it (as I
prefer a simple environment with as little software running as possible, and
this wasn't a critical need). During that time since the trial, there have
been so many times that I've needed the date (not just the day of week) that
I've relied on the hover balloon to show it; however, Windows XP has a known
defect that it may stop showing the hover balloons (and the workarounds
aren't permanent).

You can search on "tray clock" at popular download sites (softpedia.com,
download.com) for other solutions.

 

[bof]

I recently booted my XP Pro machine and there appears to have been a
corruption somewhere as the appearance of the desktop had changed,
colours, fonts, etc.. I've got most of it back to how it was but can't
find a way to get the taskbar clock back to its original format.

It now displays:

14:19
Friday

when it used to display:

14:19
12 March 2010

Anyone advise where the taskbar clock format can be configured?

Many thanks

with a 2-row tall Windows taskbar, I've been stuck with time & day-of-week
(dow) forever with this setup. I've never seen the "dow, date" format of
which you speak. You sure you aren't asking about the balloon that appears
when you hover your mouse over the tray clock?[/QUOTE]

I'm 100% certain, definitely not a balloon or pop up, previously I've
always had

09:23
13/03/2010

as the two row format,

and it's exactly the format I need, as I always know what day it is but
can rarely remember the date; so it's annoying to have to hover over the
clock for the date, I've changed, hopefully temporarily, to a three row
task bar.

If you can't find an answer here that lets you change the dow string to a
"dow, date" (something that I'd be interested in, too), you might have to
replace the tray clock with a 3rd party offering, like:

http://www.sarbyxlabs.com/en/sarbyxtc.html (free)

I only trialed this last year sometime but didn't continue using it (as I
prefer a simple environment with as little software running as possible, and
this wasn't a critical need). During that time since the trial, there have
been so many times that I've needed the date (not just the day of week) that
I've relied on the hover balloon to show it; however, Windows XP has a known
defect that it may stop showing the hover balloons (and the workarounds
aren't permanent).

You can search on "tray clock" at popular download sites (softpedia.com,
download.com) for other solutions.

Thanks for the pointers, I guess there must be an answer out there
somewhere, I might try a rollback if nothing crops up. Should I find a
solution elsewhere I'll post it here.

 

[bof]

with a 2-row tall Windows taskbar, I've been stuck with time & day-of-week
(dow) forever with this setup. I've never seen the "dow, date" format of
which you speak. You sure you aren't asking about the balloon that appears
when you hover your mouse over the tray clock?

OK I seem to have solved it the help of this article:
<http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/60090-35-taskbar-week>
seems someone posted the same problem here in 2005.



Looks like my machine somehow configured itself with a custom desktop.
I'm now back to the default XP desktop and have

12:27
Saturday
13/03/2010

in a two row taskbar.


Many thanks to all who responded.

 

[VanguardLH]

OK I seem to have solved it the help of this article:
<http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/60090-35-taskbar-week>
seems someone posted the same problem here in 2005.

Looks like my machine somehow configured itself with a custom desktop.
I'm now back to the default XP desktop and have

12:27
Saturday
13/03/2010

in a two row taskbar.

Many thanks to all who responded.

That won't work for me. I changed the DPI setting for my screen to 125%
(from normal of 96 DPI to large of 120 DPI). That makes text easier to
read. One of the problems with the higher resolutions for monitors is that
they make the text smaller and gave me headaches squinting at the screen.
So upping the DPI made the text larger everywhere, including the tray
clock's text. So that clues me in as to why I only got 2 rows of clock text
(instead of 3) in a 2-row Windows taskbar.

I retrialed the Sarbyx tray clock and found one of its skins is actually
preferrable to tiny text of a 3-row tray clock included in Windows. By
selecting the Longhorn skin, I get a tray clock that I can immediately read
rather than squint at those tiny characters. The date and day-of-week are
still small but bolded so they are still easier to read than the default
text size for a 3-row tray clock display.

Higher resolution can be nice but not when it makes me have to wear
magnifying eyeglasses to use the computer (they actually sell those).
Eyeglasses also give me a headache when worn for hours and hours.

I hadn't thought about the font size but it makes sense as to why Windows
thinks it can't get all 3 rows of text for the tray clock.