How to Enable or Disable New Tray Clock and Calendar Experience in Windows 10

   Warning

This tutorial no longer works starting with Windows 10 build 14291 released on March 17th 2016.

   Information

When you click/tap on the clock system icon on the taskbar in Windows 10, a clock and calendar dialog will open.

Windows 10 includes a new clock experience.

The (old) clock is the same as in previous Windows that displays a basic calendar and up to three clocks. This would be one clock for the local time, and up to two additional clocks for different time zones.

The new clock has a modern design that uses larger characters and spacing to make using with touch easier. It doesn't include additional clocks.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the new tray clock and calendar experience for all users in Windows 10.

You must be signed in as an administrator to be able to enable or disable the new clock experience for all users.

EXAMPLE: Old and New Tray Clock and Calendar







Here's How:

   Note

The .reg files below are to change the registry key and DWORD value below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell

UseWin32TrayClockExperience DWORD

0 = enable
1 = disable

1. Do step 2 or step 3 below for what you would like to do.

 2. To Disable New Clock Experience

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Disable_New_Clock_Calendar.reg

Download

 3. To Enable New Clock Experience

NOTE: This is the default setting.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Enable_New_Clock_Calendar.reg

Download

4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. If prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.




That's it,
Shawn

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