clock display

[Dick Mahar]

The clock display on my taskbar has run off and hidden. Could one of you
kind folks give me some idea as to where to find it? Win7 64 bit. TIA

 

[Char Jackson]

The clock display on my taskbar has run off and hidden. Could one of you
kind folks give me some idea as to where to find it? Win7 64 bit. TIA

If you were running XP, I would say right click on the taskbar, select
Properties, then check the box next to "Show the clock." Maybe it's in
the same place in Win7, or is this yet another thing that has moved?

 

[FiOS-Dave]

Right-click Toolbar, Properties, Clock ON.

Dave

 

[housetrained]

hit windows key - type clock icon - go from there

 

[Orc]

it fooled me trying to turn it off...

right click taskbar
properties
on the taskbar tab - customize
on the control panel page that pops up
turn system icons on or off
and it should be on the next window at the top of the list

Phew and I though win 7 was more user friendly...

hope that helps

ORC

 

[johnbee]

The clock display on my taskbar has run off and hidden. Could one of you
kind folks give me some idea as to where to find it? Win7 64 bit. TIA

Since I, unusually, know the answer I will put it even though you have
certainly done it by now. The clock showing on the task bar is in fact now
in the Notification Area. If you open Control Panel, you will see that one
of the items for selection is Notification Area Icons. If you click on that
you will be able to find a little row of blue letters which says 'Turn
System Icons on or off'. Click on that and up pops a popup that includes
the ability to turn off the clock icon. It does not of course as anyone
should know actually mean 'turn off the clock icon'. The clue of course is
that everybody knows that there is no clock icon. Nope. It means show the
time and date at the end of the Start bar (AKA task bar), or don't as the
case may be.

Actually a faster way is to right click on a blank bit of the Notification
Area if you can get to one, and select 'Customize Notification Items'. That
is a way of getting to the Control panel page quicker than trying to find
out how to start the control panel.

This is in fact slightly less daft than it seems. They have put in what
they refer to as 'gadgets', no doubt because the term 'widget' has been used
by some other software that I did not like much when I tried it because it
uses terms like 'widget' and so I reckon it was for pre-teenage girls.
Anyway one of the gadgets they have put in the gadgets bit is a clock so you
can have two clocks (or more of course) going. If they hide away the
workings of the old style clock it might make the gadgets thing more
popular.

I do not know it is for that reason, but I thought I would try to find an
excuse.

 

[FiOS-Dave]

Since I, unusually, know the answer I will put it even though you have
certainly done it by now. The clock showing on the task bar is in fact
now in the Notification Area. If you open Control Panel, you will see
that one of the items for selection is Notification Area Icons. If you
click on that you will be able to find a little row of blue letters which
says 'Turn System Icons on or off'. Click on that and up pops a popup
that includes the ability to turn off the clock icon. It does not of
course as anyone should know actually mean 'turn off the clock icon'. The
clue of course is that everybody knows that there is no clock icon. Nope.
It means show the time and date at the end of the Start bar (AKA task
bar), or don't as the case may be.

Actually a faster way is to right click on a blank bit of the Notification
Area if you can get to one, and select 'Customize Notification Items'.
That is a way of getting to the Control panel page quicker than trying to
find out how to start the control panel.

This is in fact slightly less daft than it seems. They have put in what
they refer to as 'gadgets', no doubt because the term 'widget' has been
used by some other software that I did not like much when I tried it
because it uses terms like 'widget' and so I reckon it was for pre-teenage
girls. Anyway one of the gadgets they have put in the gadgets bit is a
clock so you can have two clocks (or more of course) going. If they hide
away the workings of the old style clock it might make the gadgets thing
more popular.

I do not know it is for that reason, but I thought I would try to find an
excuse.

Right click on existing date/time, select "Adjust Date/Time, create as many
clocks
as you like! Don't need a clock gadget, unless you want "eye candy" or extra
features...

Dave