Monday, February 11, 2002
Date & Time Registry Hack
Posted by Jason Dunn in "SOFTWARE" @ 03:50 PM
Marshall Burke emailed us this rather interesting registry hack that some of you might be interested in. You'll need a registry editor, so check this one out. Here's what Marshall suggests:
"I was very annoyed when Microsoft removed this function (Date and Time) so I pulled out my old PPC and started to analyze the Registry and found the setting to allow it on the PocketPC operating system (I have tested on both PocketPC 2000 and PocketPC 2002). Use a Registry Editor and add the follows:
Add a Binary Value to the following Section:
\HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell
Value Name: TBOpt
Value Data: 13 00 00 00
Do a soft reset and you will get both the time and date. The disadvantage is that you can't switch to the totally useless analog clock (it will show '1/1'). I believe what the above registry setting does is to decrease the font value of the time and date area to allow both items to be displayed."
(we posted this previously, but it was too good to remain lost...)
"I was very annoyed when Microsoft removed this function (Date and Time) so I pulled out my old PPC and started to analyze the Registry and found the setting to allow it on the PocketPC operating system (I have tested on both PocketPC 2000 and PocketPC 2002). Use a Registry Editor and add the follows:
Add a Binary Value to the following Section:
\HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell
Value Name: TBOpt
Value Data: 13 00 00 00
Do a soft reset and you will get both the time and date. The disadvantage is that you can't switch to the totally useless analog clock (it will show '1/1'). I believe what the above registry setting does is to decrease the font value of the time and date area to allow both items to be displayed."
(we posted this previously, but it was too good to remain lost...)
