Comments on: How to display Seconds in Taskbar Clock in Windows 11

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 04:48:00 +0000

Sorry to revive this if there’s a more appropriate thread out there, but should this work for Windows 10 v1803? Do you need the tool, or can you just modify the registry and be done with it? Doesn’t seem to be working for me, unless you need a reboot first.

By: Vineet Kumar

Vineet Kumar — Wed, 09 May 2018 17:08:00 +0000

In reply to Matthew Lynam. thanks ,it worked in windows 10 version 1709

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:15:00 +0000

This works a treat. Thank you!!

The only extra thing I had to do was reboot for the change to take effect.

By: Ole Bjørn Dahl

Ole Bjørn Dahl — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 12:11:00 +0000

why does Microsoft call system for windows saying its point and click system when every-time something is to be done we has to edit in registry or use dos commands ?

By: Matthew Lynam

Matthew Lynam — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 05:28:00 +0000

An easy way to do the same thing is to go to Start -> search for “cmd”, right click on the “cmd.exe” executable and select “Run as administrator”, then type the following in the command window:

REG ADD HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced /v ShowSecondsInSystemClock /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f&&taskkill /f /im explorer.exe&&explorer.exe&&exit

That will add the ShowSecondsInSystemClock registry value and set the value as 1 (enabled), then if the registry tweak worked, it will restart Windows Explorer so you can see the updated clock behavior. If that worked, it will exit and the window will close.

and if you ever want to change it back, do the same thing and replace the 1 with a 0.