How to Show Your Name in Windows Taskbar

Posted by Saad Hamid 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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Posted in: Software/OS

  • That's sweet :D Can show off to buddies haha!
  • hahaha ... Nice Trick Buddy :P !
  • Simple and easy tips. :-)
  • I never knew i can do that :P
    Now i know it..
  • lol you people seem to be enjoying it the same way as I did :D have fun people
  • Quick and painless. Nice tip there buddy.
  • 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..

    :)
  • 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...
  • 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.
  • works in Vista too - thanks for the tip
  • jkillah1 lol thanks for the tip :D never though about that.

    Nemesis     Yay! it works in Vista too good to know :)
  • Sorry, the link in my last comment didn't work.

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

    IMG Link
  • lol yeh well it affects everything that uses local time settings :P but its still cool for one-time show off :D
  • Great one. Will tell my readers to come here.
  • Excellent one buddy, changed mine :D
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Hehe very nice trick Flush
  • Sexy cool little trick :D
  • 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?
  • Roll Back the changes to get back AM and PM.
  • Mark
    Also changes AIM time so be careful!
  • 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!!!
  • Hi This is Bindass....
  • How about showing work weeks there? Does any here know about this? Thanks!
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