Systray clock - closure

Follow up to all who helped tried to help me with making the
'hide_clock_feature' stick after a reboot.

I decided to give my 6 year old PC a Xmas present and reformatted the hard
drive (200,000+ reg entries down to just under 60,000). After hours of re-
loading Win98 and upgrading to WinME (wish I had a full WinME disk rather
than an upgrade disk) AND downloading IE6SP1 and ALL the patches and
updates from MS AND downloading all my favourite applications AND
downloading ALL the latest malware definitions AND etc etc ... I now have a
systray clock that STAYS HIDDEN.

ps ..... the 'floating clock' still floats and my systracl clock stays
hidden, wohoo.


original message follows

Is there any procedure for disabling the system tray clock ? I can right
click the taskbar, select 'properties' and un-check 'show system clock'.
That removes the clock, but on next bootup the clock is back. Any way to
make the un-check hold for good ?

--
Adware/malware/spyware free since 1996, using IE and OE.

WTG, Doc!
Any clues as to what killed the facility originally?

BTW - unless your Upgrade disk was an OEM one, there was no need to install
Win98 first, as the Win ME one would have asked for the 'qualifying Product'
CD partway through the install to a clean system! (a bit late, I know,
but....)

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6oztj
A Happy Xmas, and a Merry New Year to everyone!

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's

"Doc" ] wrote in message
...
Follow up to all who helped tried to help me with making the
'hide_clock_feature' stick after a reboot.

I decided to give my 6 year old PC a Xmas present and reformatted the hard
drive (200,000+ reg entries down to just under 60,000). After hours of re-
loading Win98 and upgrading to WinME (wish I had a full WinME disk rather
than an upgrade disk) AND downloading IE6SP1 and ALL the patches and
updates from MS AND downloading all my favourite applications AND
downloading ALL the latest malware definitions AND etc etc ... I now have
a
systray clock that STAYS HIDDEN.

ps ..... the 'floating clock' still floats and my systracl clock stays
hidden, wohoo.


original message follows

Is there any procedure for disabling the system tray clock ? I can right
click the taskbar, select 'properties' and un-check 'show system clock'.
That removes the clock, but on next bootup the clock is back. Any way to
make the un-check hold for good ?

--
Adware/malware/spyware free since 1996, using IE and OE.

Must have been a side-affect of the static discharges being caused by your
Jingle ballz.
Good to hear it's now fixed (in spite of the effort g) and thanks for the
feedback Doc.

Sledgehanner - nuts!!

Mart


"Doc" ] wrote in message
...
Follow up to all who helped tried to help me with making the
'hide_clock_feature' stick after a reboot.

I decided to give my 6 year old PC a Xmas present and reformatted the hard
drive (200,000+ reg entries down to just under 60,000). After hours of re-
loading Win98 and upgrading to WinME (wish I had a full WinME disk rather
than an upgrade disk) AND downloading IE6SP1 and ALL the patches and
updates from MS AND downloading all my favourite applications AND
downloading ALL the latest malware definitions AND etc etc ... I now have
a
systray clock that STAYS HIDDEN.

ps ..... the 'floating clock' still floats and my systracl clock stays
hidden, wohoo.


original message follows

Is there any procedure for disabling the system tray clock ? I can right
click the taskbar, select 'properties' and un-check 'show system clock'.
That removes the clock, but on next bootup the clock is back. Any way to
make the un-check hold for good ?

--
Adware/malware/spyware free since 1996, using IE and OE.

"Mart" wrote in
:


Sledgehanner - nuts!!

Mart

Ouch

"Noel Paton" wrote in
:

Any clues as to what killed the facility originally?

In the Xma spirit .... no eyed deer's
It wan't till had the floating clock that I ever wanted to hide the
systray clock .... and I have tried a ton of share/free ware over the
years.

BTW - unless your Upgrade disk was an OEM one, there was no need to
install Win98 first, as the Win ME one would have asked for the
'qualifying Product' CD partway through the install to a clean system!
(a bit late, I know, but....)


My PC is an HP Pavilion, it came pre-installed with OEM Win98FE and an 'HP
system recovery' cd. I wasn't even sure if the recovery cd would allow a
fresh install. A year or so ago I acquired a WinME 'upgrade' cd and
upgraded to ME (smart move). I wasn't sure if the OEM98 recovery cd would
be recognised as a qualifying media so took the long option of installing
98 first.
As it turns out, that wasn't the 'longest' part of getting my PC back to
the functionality it had before. sigh, downloading on dial-up is slow.
Needless to say .. lesson learnt .... i now have a 'pristine' image of my
C drive to revert to in future if required.

All the best for 2005

--
Adware/malware/spyware free since 1996, using IE and OE.

"Doc" ] wrote in message
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"Noel Paton" wrote in
:

Any clues as to what killed the facility originally?

In the Xma spirit .... no eyed deer's
It wan't till had the floating clock that I ever wanted to hide the
systray clock .... and I have tried a ton of share/free ware over the
years.

Haven't we all! - and none of us has the ideal answer to the inevitable
system degredation that occurs over time
About the only true solution is the one you have already found - an image of
the system to fall back to. Even that has its problems, as frequently trial
software only becomes sufficient of a pain to make it worthwwhile to
uninstall, after you've installed a load of other stuff, so you have to keep
multiple images, etc, etc.


BTW - unless your Upgrade disk was an OEM one, there was no need to
install Win98 first, as the Win ME one would have asked for the
'qualifying Product' CD partway through the install to a clean system!
(a bit late, I know, but....)


My PC is an HP Pavilion, it came pre-installed with OEM Win98FE and an 'HP
system recovery' cd. I wasn't even sure if the recovery cd would allow a
fresh install. A year or so ago I acquired a WinME 'upgrade' cd and
upgraded to ME (smart move). I wasn't sure if the OEM98 recovery cd would
be recognised as a qualifying media so took the long option of installing
98 first.

AH yes - I misspoke above - The OEM recovery disks can be a PITA, I just
wish that MS put the qualifier check earlier in the process - or even put an
external verifier on the CD, so you could check before you started!!

As it turns out, that wasn't the 'longest' part of getting my PC back to
the functionality it had before. sigh, downloading on dial-up is slow.

I'm with you there!! - my (a little ealry) Xmas present to myself was an
ADSL connection

Needless to say .. lesson learnt .... i now have a 'pristine' image of
my
C drive to revert to in future if required.

Good idea! - now you have to remember to update it.


All the best for 2005


And to you!

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6oztj
A Happy Xmas, and a Merry New Year to everyone!

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's

"Noel Paton" wrote in
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I'm with you there!! - my (a little ealry) Xmas present to myself was
an ADSL connection


I had my first play with ADSL on Dec 24th .... we just got it at work. I
was impressed with the (relative) speed.

So impressed, that is why I decided to reformat my PC at home ...... you
know, sneak into work late on Xmas day, do all the downloads with ADSL,
burn to CD, and upgrade my PC. The downloads etc went well, until it came
time to burn to CD.

DOH !!!!! no cd burner on the work PC. Wasted a couple of hours. DOH !!!

Maybe a New Years pressie for the home PC.



--
Adware/malware/spyware free since 1996, using IE and OE.

"Doc" ] wrote in message
...
"Noel Paton" wrote in
:


I'm with you there!! - my (a little ealry) Xmas present to myself was
an ADSL connection


I had my first play with ADSL on Dec 24th .... we just got it at work. I
was impressed with the (relative) speed.

So impressed, that is why I decided to reformat my PC at home ...... you
know, sneak into work late on Xmas day, do all the downloads with ADSL,
burn to CD, and upgrade my PC. The downloads etc went well, until it came
time to burn to CD.

DOH !!!!! no cd burner on the work PC. Wasted a couple of hours. DOH !!!

Maybe a New Years pressie for the home PC.





OooopS!
Maybe an idea to suggest getting one - for 'backups', of course.
--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6oztj
A Happy Xmas, and a Merry New Year to everyone!

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's

You don't actually need to have windows 98 loaded to upgrade to ME, you just need
the original 98 disk and insert it when prompted as the Win ME install program
will ask for it if it doesn't find a previous Windows installation on the HDD.

To hide the clock, click a blank section of the task bar, click properites, and
un-check "show clock". Click OK. reboot and see if the setting holds.



"Doc" ] wrote in message
...
Follow up to all who helped tried to help me with making the
'hide_clock_feature' stick after a reboot.

I decided to give my 6 year old PC a Xmas present and reformatted the hard
drive (200,000+ reg entries down to just under 60,000). After hours of re-
loading Win98 and upgrading to WinME (wish I had a full WinME disk rather
than an upgrade disk) AND downloading IE6SP1 and ALL the patches and
updates from MS AND downloading all my favourite applications AND
downloading ALL the latest malware definitions AND etc etc ... I now have a
systray clock that STAYS HIDDEN.

ps ..... the 'floating clock' still floats and my systracl clock stays
hidden, wohoo.


original message follows

Is there any procedure for disabling the system tray clock ? I can right
click the taskbar, select 'properties' and un-check 'show system clock'.
That removes the clock, but on next bootup the clock is back. Any way to
make the un-check hold for good ?

--
Adware/malware/spyware free since 1996, using IE and OE.