Hi Ted
Not that I know of. You can left click on the the time (3:44 PM) in the
notification area of the task bar and it will display the hour,minuets and
seconds in two formats. There is a clock sidebar gadget shipped with Vista
I think it has a second hand. There are many 3rd party software
apps/gadgets that may display a constant seconds count. None of the apps
that must constantly refresh the display of seconds in a day will *help* the
speed of your computer.
H Brown