does anyone know how to get the seconds to show up in the bottom right hand
corner of the screen, i have seconds set up and all but i was wondering how
to get them to show in the clock
You will have to use a third-party tray clock replacement to do this,
since there is no facility within Windows to change the way the clock
is presented.
There are many Vista-compatible tray clock replacements. Usually,
they have a modest cost, maybe $20US-$30US, but usually also provide
all future upgrades within the cost.
Few of them are larger than 3 or 4MB in download size, so even those
with dialup connections should have little trouble downloading one of
them.
I've noticed that the old saw which goes "You get what you pay for" is
definitely true when it comes to applications like these. Freebies,
while many times working properly, seldom have easy configuration, and
usually have ad banners, etc.
A couple of suggestions: These are two I've owned for some time, and
which I use every day.
Atomic Alarm Clock, from
http://www.drive-software.com. This one is
compatible with Vista (but does have a few small bugs), and looks good
on the TaskBar. Version 5.5 seems to be more stable, and the display
of the date and time are larger on old eyes than in previous versions.
Atomic Alarm Clock has a couple of easy-to-use configuration dialogs,
with choices such as to display a partial or full date, whether to
show the date and time in a transparent background (very important in
Vista), or whether to display a 12hr or a 24hr clock, whether to
display seconds or not, whether to show computer uptime or not, etc.
But it uses pre-formatted "skins" to display the date/time information
in the Notification Area, so the formats are not easily
user-configurable. To change the formats, you must try to follow
their practically non-existent (even extremely esoteric) documentation
on "skin" creation. Another thing I dislike about this clock is that
the YEAR is never displayed, nor is there a way to accomplish this.
Additionally, from time to time, opening or closing windows will cause
the clock's display to become completely blacked out. This last one
is not an unrecoverable error. It will usually come back in a few
more clicks, or if you click on the TaskBar.
Say The Time 9.0, from
http://www.proveniosoftware.com, is more
user-configurable, since it does not use pre-formatted "skins", as
Atomic Alarm Clock does. While it's easy to change standard formats
with this product (just pick one from a list), it's harder to create
special formats, such as individual text fonts and sizes and text
justification and placement. You must use HTML-like tags to configure
special formats. Additionally, the editing area in the configuration
dialog is extremely small, so it's hard to see your entire format
section all at once. This makes it hard to keep track of the various
tags you place in the configuration.
There are several very nice standard formats in the list supplied with
the clock. Additionally, these standard formats may be
user-configured to fit the size of the Notification area or his System
theme. This means that each font of each element of the Clock, its
size, and its color, may be individually adjusted. Or, the user may
create his own format from standard elements.
--
Donald L McDaniel
How can so many otherwise very intelligent people screw up
something so simple so badly? If you stick a computer
keyboard in front of most people, they'll suddenly drop
30 points off their IQs. Much like placing a "Pork Barrel"
bill in front of a politician: He'll forget all about
"cooperation" the minute he counts the zeroes before the
decimal point.
