kiwiruss

I am looking for the registry setting to display date and time on the top menu bar of the today screen on my new x51v.

On my old ipaq 5455 (wm2003) i could do this...
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Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\
Create a binary value named "TBOpt" and set its value to "13 00 00 00".
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but it doesnt seem to work in windows mobile 5
I dont really want to run wisbar or any other ontop apps, but rather am looking for a setting to change or add to show date and time on the titlebar on the today screen.

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DoDoubleGeo

I don't have a WM5 machine to test this on, but have tried to make it a DWord value and set the data to 3.

kiwiruss

what do I call the Dword Value ?

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DoDoubleGeo

Same as you had it TBOpt

kiwiruss

Hmm. added it and softreset but it didnt stick .
After the soft reset it was gone ? Im using resco registry editor.

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DoDoubleGeo

It must not like it as a DWord. Sorry, but other than suggesting the Tweaks2k utility, I am out of ideas.

kiwiruss

thanks for the suggestion. I tried tweaks2k.net but didnt really like it. the fonts for the date and time looked different from each other. and I had issues removing it so I did a hard reset (yesterday) and reinstalled all my stuff.

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kiwiruss

Well, It does work and after further investigation I found the following info on PPCSG - thanks to Aficionado for his great post.
This works on my X51V windows mobile 5 PPC

(I have to do two soft resets sometimes for the change to take effect - dont know why)
Instead of adding a binary value you can do this,

1) Open a registry editor (e.g. PHM or Resco).
2) Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\
3) Create a DWord value named "TBOpt" and set its value to "3".
4) Soft-reset.

Investigated somemore and found other types of displays:
1) Remove date and time althogether = Change TBOpt value to "0".
2) Display only Time = Change TBOpt value to "1".
3) Display only Date = Change TBOpt value to "2".
4) Display both Time and Date = Change TBOpt value to "3".

This is virtually useless, but the sequence is repeated as u increase the numbers accordingly:
1) Remove date and time althogether = Change TBOpt value to "4".
2) Display only Time = Change TBOpt value to "5".
3) Display only Date = Change TBOpt value to "6".
4) Display both Time and Date = Change TBOpt value to "7".
5) Remove date and time althogether = Change TBOpt value to "8".
6) So on...

When showing the date and time, it crops off the "5" from the year "05" because the font is too big.
Anyone know how to specify a smaller font ?

I setteled on this , Display only Date = Change TBOpt value to "2".

thanks again Aficionado

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Jenster

Any luck with changing the font size on the taskbar?

Lucky396

What's wrong with just going to Settings>Today>Items and checking "Date" and move it to the top so that your today screen has the time in the upper right and then the day and date on the next line?

Jenster

Originally Posted by Lucky396

What's wrong with just going to Settings>Today>Items and checking "Date" and move it to the top so that your today screen has the time in the upper right and then the day and date on the next line?

That is fine. But I prefer to have the date & time on the taskbar so that when I have another prgram running, I can easily see the date without going back to the today screen. :)

Watchin

BTW - the reason that the number sequence repeats is that the
software is looking at it as binary values so...
0 = 0000 bits
1 = 0001 bits
2 = 0010 bits
3 = 0011 bits
so all bits off = none
bit 1 set = time on
bit 2 set = date on
set them both and guess what, you get both
the higher bits are ignore so 5 = 1001 = time on, 6= 1010 = date on....

There are probably other bits in there somewhere that do other things,
but see as you have to do a soft reset between each, you're gonna have
a long weekend finding them I think :D

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