Full date in Windows XP

Make sure the taskbar is unlocked (right click a blank area in the taskbar/uncheck "Lock the taskbar").  Left click on the upper edge of the taskbar and hold the button while pulling the taskbar up to double size, then release.  The day of the week should be present.  I'm not aware of away to accomplish this with the taskbar in the narrow configuration.

Message Edited by Flooby on 11-16-2004 10:31 PM

Dynamin,

If the loss of screen real estate from a triple-height taskbar is a concern you can always right-click the task bar, select Properties, and check "Auto-hide the taskbar." That way it will be out of your way unless you wish to see it, when you can hover your cursor over the bottom of the monitor and the taskbar will pop up.

Dynamin,

Flooby is correct if you wish to accomplish the result using only Windows XP. An alternate solution is the freeware program here.

dynamin

I have always had the full date on my non-Dell comp (Wednesday,November 17, 2004). If you don't mind editing the registry (using regedit), you can navigate to the following key:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International]

Look for the bold string:

"sLanguage"="ENU"
"sList"=","
"sLongDate"="dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy"
"sShortDate"="M/d/yyyy"

Yours probably shows "sLongDate"="MMMM dd, yyyy"  or is probably missing entirely. If you're comfortable with editing the registry, and if you want to add that line, right-click on 'International' > new> string value, rename it to   sLongDate     and [enter]. Then right-click on the new entry ' sLongDate ' and select 'modify'. In the blank box, add dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy exactly as it shows here. You might have to reboot for the change to take effect. As I said earlier, this is from a non Dell machine and I don't know if it will work on your comp. If you don't feel you want to mess with the registry, then don't attempt it as you can really mess up your machine if done wrong!

If anyone tries this, please post back if it worked on your Dell.

 

Message Edited by chuket on 11-17-2004 01:47 AM

dynamin

 
 
 

Message Edited by chuket on 11-21-2004 11:06 PM

 

Message Edited by chuket on 11-21-2004 11:07 PM

Personally, I prefer dddd dd MMMM yyyy -->Tuesday 23 November 2004

No chuket, it didnt have the long date option with the day.  It only had the day as a number.

It's ok though because do the raised taskbar trick and leave it like that

 

Thanks again

Actually I live in Toronto Canada so my Dell is set to canadian date/time

But I'm assuming it's basically the same as the U.S. setting so it makes little difference.