![]() Now the lock screen upon boot-up and when your user account locks will show this time format.ĭo you concur that this is either how you got here or that your settings represent this? Click Cancel to close the Region Control Panel dialog.Click OK to close the "Welcome screen and new accounts settings" dialog.Check the box for "Welcome screen and system accounts".If that dialog did NOT update to show "HH:mm:ss", pressing Apply or OK again on this dialog will wipe the previous setting. After closing that customize format dialog, you will be able to press apply on the Region Control Panel dialog.Originally only have 4 options available, I manually typed in "HH:mm:ss" and pressed apply to save that new value. Likely, you did the same thing I did in the past. Here, if "HH:mm:ss" is still set, we see 5 options available. In the "Time formats" section, we see the Short time text box/drop-down menu.If you were to select any other options than "HH:mm:ss", "HH:mm:ss" disappears from the menu choices and only 4 are available. "HH:mm:ss" is only showing up because that is the current setting. In the Short time drop-down box, you will see 5 entries "HH:mm:ss","HH:mm", "h:mm tt", "hh:mm tt", and "H:mm".In a command prompt or Run dialog, launch the Intl.cpl (Region Control Panel).What you have done with the time format is the same thing I have done. If I removed the comma after ddd Excel displayed dates as before.Edit: Added link to my submittal of this bug on the Feedback Hub: I tried changing the format to have a comma after the day of the week by using ddd, yyyy-MM-dd and it looked fine on the Taskbar as Thu,, but dates in Excel were then formatted oddly: what used to display as was displaying as 2022,02,24. On the Date tab, in the Date formats section, click the start of the field for Short date: and ddd and a space (mine was yyyy-MM-dd, so the result was ddd yyyy-MM-dd).Ĭlick the Apply button, check the clock on the Taskbar, and decide if you like it. On the Formats tab, click the Additional settings… button. Select Region ( Clock and Region if you are in Category view). Run Control Panel (click Start, start typing control panel and when it appears in the results, click it). If you want to change the clock back to not show seconds, edit the ShowSecondsInSystemClock value and change the Value data to 0. If you accidentally click off New Value #1, right-click it, and choose Rename.ĭouble-click the ShowSecondsInSystemClock value in the right pane, set the Value data to 1, and click OK.Ĭlose the Registry Editor, sign out of Windows and sign back in. In the open dialogue box, overwrite the default New Value #1 and name the value ShowSecondsInSystemClock. Right-click on Advanced and choose New | DWORD (32-bit) value from the context menu. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced ![]() Open the Registry Editor ( Start| Windows Administrative Tools). See the ReadMe.txt file in the zip file for instructions. If you are uncomfortable with using the Registry Editor, you can download. Having a good image backup of your computer is-as always-advised. There is no Undo and changes take effect with no Save command. As of the writing of this article, this does not work in Windows 11.Ĭaution: while it is fairly straightforward to edit the Windows registry, don’t make random changes. Two small changes and it will also show seconds and the day of the week. About Chris Taylor: Chris is on the Community Review Board for SANS’s OUCH! (the security awareness newsletter designed for everyone), has given over 470 computer-related presentations at the Ottawa Public Library, and is President of the Ottawa PC Users’ Group.īy default, the Windows 10 clock on the taskbar shows hours & minutes and the date.
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