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Dick Mahar

Flightless Bird
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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Char Jackson

Flightless Bird
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 22:10:41 -0400, "Dick Mahar"
<dmahar@tvcconnect.net> wrote:

> 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?
 
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FiOS-Dave

Flightless Bird
Right-click Toolbar, Properties, Clock ON.

Dave

"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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housetrained

Flightless Bird
hit windows key - type clock icon - go from there

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John the West Ham fan

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"Dick Mahar" <dmahar@tvcconnect.net> wrote in message
news:4rGdnfKl1JwAdCbWnZ2dnUVZ_tudnZ2d@tvcconnect.net...
> 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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Orc

Flightless Bird
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

"Dick Mahar" <dmahar@tvcconnect.net> wrote in message
news:4rGdnfKl1JwAdCbWnZ2dnUVZ_tudnZ2d@tvcconnect.net...
> 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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johnbee

Flightless Bird
"Dick Mahar" <dmahar@tvcconnect.net> wrote in message
news:4rGdnfKl1JwAdCbWnZ2dnUVZ_tudnZ2d@tvcconnect.net...
> 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.
 
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FiOS-Dave

Flightless Bird
"johnbee" <johnbrockbank@virginmedia.com> wrote in message
news:hpiivd$h0o$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>
> "Dick Mahar" <dmahar@tvcconnect.net> wrote in message
> news:4rGdnfKl1JwAdCbWnZ2dnUVZ_tudnZ2d@tvcconnect.net...
>> 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.


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
 
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