"johnbee" <johnbrockbank@virginmedia.com> wrote in message
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> "Dick Mahar" <dmahar@tvcconnect.net> wrote in message
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>> 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
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> 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