How to Make Your Windows 10 Taskbar Clock Show Seconds

Cherokee · 27 Jun 2019

I completed this small change and it works perfect. Did not take more than a couple of minutes.
I find seconds extremely useful for certain time-check tasks and generally useful to have.
A minute is a long time in the computer world.

Follow the clear and easy instructions given pictorially in the link below and its done.
You have to restart your PC afterwards to show the seconds.

I had to use the 32-bit choice specified, regardless of my PC being a 64-bit set when selecting the new DWORD value.

Follow this link exactly -
https://www.howtogeek.com/325096/how...splay-seconds/

The image shown is my taskbar showing seconds -

Stevekir · 27 Jun 2019

It didn't work for me. I tried to unblock it but there was no offering to do that (which means the file is not blocked). It flickered for a fraction of a second so I assumed it did not work. So I tried the other way, by simply opening the .bat file but it flickered and again disappeared.

HANG ON! Seconds now appear on the taskbar. Also, the time it shows is exactly UTC time, which I use. No need to restart.

Many thanks.

Bree · 27 Jun 2019

Cherokee said:

....Follow this link exactly -
How to Make Windows 10’s Taskbar Clock Display Seconds

That is one of my favourite TenForums tutorials, such a little change but so satisfying.

nunzio · 28 Jun 2019

Now also me I got seconds !!!! Thank you.

Cherokee · 28 Jun 2019

What is wrong with my link -
https://www.howtogeek.com/325096/how...splay-seconds/

Only took a couple of minutes and it worked immediately.

Bree · 28 Jun 2019

Cherokee said:

What is wrong with my link....

It takes readers away from Ten Forums when there is a Ten Forums tutorial published about nine months before the article you linked to that does exactly the same thing in exactly the same way.

Hide or Show Seconds on Taskbar Clock in Windows 10

Cherokee · 28 Jun 2019

Bree said:

It takes readers away from Ten Forums when there is a Ten Forums tutorial published about nine months before the article you linked to that does exactly the same thing in exactly the same way.

Hide or Show Seconds on Taskbar Clock in Windows 10

Thanks Bree, but I find my link infinitely more easy to follow than the tutorial.
No downloading files and fiddling with them.

Ztruker · 28 Jun 2019

You find it easier to go into regedit and make a registry change than to download a small batch file and run it?