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From: bof on 13 Mar 2010 07:30 In message <hneri5$9f7$1(a)news.albasani.net>, VanguardLH <V(a)nguard.LH> writes >with a 2-row tall Windows taskbar, I've been stuck with time & day-of-week >(dow) forever with this setup. I've never seen the "dow, date" format of >which you speak. You sure you aren't asking about the balloon that appears >when you hover your mouse over the tray clock? OK I seem to have solved it the help of this article: <http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/60090-35-taskbar-week> seems someone posted the same problem here in 2005. Looks like my machine somehow configured itself with a custom desktop. I'm now back to the default XP desktop and have 12:27 Saturday 13/03/2010 in a two row taskbar. Many thanks to all who responded. -- bof at bof dot me dot uk
From: VanguardLH on 13 Mar 2010 14:22
bof wrote: > In message <hneri5$9f7$1(a)news.albasani.net>, VanguardLH <V(a)nguard.LH> > writes > >>with a 2-row tall Windows taskbar, I've been stuck with time & day-of-week >>(dow) forever with this setup. I've never seen the "dow, date" format of >>which you speak. You sure you aren't asking about the balloon that appears >>when you hover your mouse over the tray clock? > > OK I seem to have solved it the help of this article: > <http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/60090-35-taskbar-week> > seems someone posted the same problem here in 2005. > > Looks like my machine somehow configured itself with a custom desktop. > I'm now back to the default XP desktop and have > > 12:27 > Saturday > 13/03/2010 > > in a two row taskbar. > > Many thanks to all who responded. That won't work for me. I changed the DPI setting for my screen to 125% (from normal of 96 DPI to large of 120 DPI). That makes text easier to read. One of the problems with the higher resolutions for monitors is that they make the text smaller and gave me headaches squinting at the screen. So upping the DPI made the text larger everywhere, including the tray clock's text. So that clues me in as to why I only got 2 rows of clock text (instead of 3) in a 2-row Windows taskbar. I retrialed the Sarbyx tray clock and found one of its skins is actually preferrable to tiny text of a 3-row tray clock included in Windows. By selecting the Longhorn skin, I get a tray clock that I can immediately read rather than squint at those tiny characters. The date and day-of-week are still small but bolded so they are still easier to read than the default text size for a 3-row tray clock display. Higher resolution can be nice but not when it makes me have to wear magnifying eyeglasses to use the computer (they actually sell those). Eyeglasses also give me a headache when worn for hours and hours. I hadn't thought about the font size but it makes sense as to why Windows thinks it can't get all 3 rows of text for the tray clock. |