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
- Open Start Menu and then open Control Panel
- Double click Regional and Language Options
- Click Customize (besides English U.S drop down menu)
- Go to Time tab and change AM/PM symbols to the name of your choice
and you are done 
now that was fast and easy wasn’t it? Enjoy. Here is what I came up with
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That’s sweet
Can show off to buddies haha!
hahaha … Nice Trick Buddy
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Simple and easy tips.
I never knew i can do that
Now i know it..
lol you people seem to be enjoying it the same way as I did
have fun people
Quick and painless. Nice tip there buddy.
Nice Trick Bro
good trick!
Nice & Easy Trick
Enjoy everbody
Thats awesome. Thanks
That could make a great prank
Hey Cool trick..
wow! I am glad so many enjoyed the trick
The most pointless thing ever – well done!!
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
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
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:
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lol yeh well it affects everything that uses local time settings
but its still cool for one-time show off 
Great one. Will tell my readers to come here.
Excellent one buddy, changed mine
This is awesome!
Awesome! now when I forget my name, I can just look at my Taskbar
Oh, only if I ran that crappy OS… bleh
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
That’s wonderful see your name on your desktop. Great and thank you.
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.
Also changes AIM time so be careful!
I love silly, pointless tricks like this. Excellent!
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.
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
Wow nice tip!!!
Hi This is Bindass….
How about showing work weeks there? Does any here know about this? Thanks!
to write our name gives some XTRA boost to our system!!!
to write our name gives some XTRA boost to our system!!!
the trick is osam its cool my frnd were shocked