How to Show Your Name in Windows Taskbar

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on September 5, 2007

Windows XP

Though there are thousands of Windows XP tips and tricks but some of them are very easy to implement and at the same time very fun to do. Today I have a sweet Windows XP trick for you that will give your Windows a personal touch and will also let you show off your name branding in front of your non-geek friends. Basically this trick will let you display a name of your choice (preferably your own name) in the Windows Taskbar just beside the digital time clock.


Show Your Name in Taskbar near Digital Time

Follow the steps and see the sweet magic

  1. Open Start Menu and then open Control Panel
  2. Double click Regional and Language Options
  3. Click Customize (besides English U.S drop down menu)
  4. Go to Time tab and change AM/PM symbols to the name of your choice

and you are done :D now that was fast and easy wasn't it? Enjoy. Here is what I came up with

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  • http://blog.shankarganesh.com Shankar Ganesh

    That’s sweet :D Can show off to buddies haha!

  • http://www.spice-and-tech.blogspot.com Cold Fire

    hahaha … Nice Trick Buddy :P !

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com Nirmal

    Simple and easy tips. :-)

  • http://www.keshzone.com Kesh

    I never knew i can do that :P
    Now i know it..

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    lol you people seem to be enjoying it the same way as I did :D have fun people

  • http://www.brownbaron.com/blog/ Brown Baron

    Quick and painless. Nice tip there buddy.

  • http://www.freakitude.com Lovedeep Wadhwa

    Nice Trick Bro :lol:

  • nasir

    good trick! :D

  • Anant

    Nice & Easy Trick :D

    Enjoy everbody :)

  • Jammy

    Thats awesome. Thanks

  • B roll

    That could make a great prank

  • jignet

    Hey Cool trick..

    :)

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    wow! I am glad so many enjoyed the trick :P

  • Shabba

    The most pointless thing ever – well done!!

  • Shabba

    Sorry that came across wrong…I meant well done for finding this…

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    Haha! either way I appreciate you took the time to comment here whether or not you liked the trick :D

  • jkillah1

    Man, it would be so funny to do this to some1′s PC if you hacked your way in and put “pwnt” down there.

  • http://www.lssclan.com Nemesis

    works in Vista too – thanks for the tip

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    jkillah1 lol thanks for the tip :D never though about that.

    Nemesis Yay! it works in Vista too good to know :)

  • http://www.kingbinary.com kingbinary

    Sorry, the link in my last comment didn’t work.

    Apparently, it changes more than the time on the taskbar:

    IMG Link

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    lol yeh well it affects everything that uses local time settings :P but its still cool for one-time show off :D

  • http://www.techwithoutwires.com Elwyn Jenkins

    Great one. Will tell my readers to come here.

  • http://www.manishtech.info Manish Sinha

    Excellent one buddy, changed mine :D

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  • Jessica

    This is awesome!

  • astanix

    Awesome! now when I forget my name, I can just look at my Taskbar

    Oh, only if I ran that crappy OS… bleh :P

  • AlmightyTim

    I set mine to say ORLY in the AM and YARLY in the PM.

  • http://ahib0205.blogspot.com/ ahib0205

    Hehe I just tried this cute trick :) but it cannot type number because I want to type my nick ahib0205 but it does not let me.

  • http://www.mastibuzz.com Hammad

    Hehe very nice trick Flush

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    Sexy cool little trick :D

  • http://www.dostan.net Saeed

    That’s wonderful see your name on your desktop. Great and thank you.

  • Jack

    my AM and PM doesn’t appear. How to i change it so it appears?

  • http://www.sizlopedia.com Dj Flush

    Roll Back the changes to get back AM and PM.

  • Mark

    Also changes AIM time so be careful!

  • http://www.braincellsoup.com Bill Vincent

    I love silly, pointless tricks like this. Excellent!

  • GFYM

    This only works if you have the 12 hour AM/PM clock, and not if you, as the rest of the non-english speaking world, have the 24 hour clock.

  • Zeh

    You can also use this trick in the 24 hr mode, just add a “t” after the hour, with the number of T’s being equal to the number of Chars.

    Nice tip Flush :)

  • Sliverboy

    Wow nice tip!!!

  • http://www.rediffmail.com Rajkumar

    Hi This is Bindass….

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  • http://twitter.com/danielooi Daniel Ooi

    How about showing work weeks there? Does any here know about this? Thanks!

  • http://www.johnthomasedison.blogspot.com/ jOnes

    to write our name gives some XTRA boost to our system!!!

  • http://www.johnthomasedison.blogspot.com/ jOnes

    to write our name gives some XTRA boost to our system!!!

  • http://www.amanmcom arayan

    the trick is osam its cool my frnd were shocked

  • Marpreyar

    very Good Tweak

  • Visitnipuna

    max relay good

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