I need a plain old calendar for Windows 11

kelper · Apr 30, 2024

Google Calendar is very versatile. You can make a shortcut and drag that to the taskbar.

Google Calendar - Sign in to Access & Edit Your Schedule

Access Google Calendar with a Google account (for personal use) or Google Workspace account (for business use).

calendar.google.com

You can share calendars within your family.

Edwin · Apr 30, 2024

Desktop Calendar - desktop blotter style, transparent, hidable...

Ghot · Apr 30, 2024

I want it to "look" somewhat like one of these... tall, narrow... doesn't take a lot of screen real estate.
No online calendars either. No sharing, syncing, taking notes, talking to me, reminding me, planning for me.
Just a basic old calendar.

And I type like a caveman with polio or similar... no keyboard shortcuts.
In fact my WIN key has been disabled since the XP days.

C'mon folks... just a registry tweak, to undo MS's er... "improvements".

Kees · Apr 30, 2024

A few days ago I posted an answer in another topic, where I described the use of the old T-Clock Calendar.
Although T-Clock itself does not function anymore in the Windows 11 (own) taskbar, its calendar still does.

This is what I wrote about it:

Kees said:
You can place a shortcut (on the desktop or in the startmenu) to the location the T-Clock calendar is situated.
In my system, where all portable programs I put in a folder "C:\Program Files Portable", that is:
"C:\Program Files Portable\T-Clock\misc\XPCalendar.exe".

So you can still use the calendar of T-clock.

If you want to change the way the calendar is displayed, you could use this command (or make a shortcut to that as well):
"C:\Program Files Portable\T-Clock\Clock64.exe" /prop

Although the clock of T-clock is not usable anymore (unless you would use an app like ExplorerPatcher or StartAllBack), you still can change the settings, so the settings of the calendar as well. Which is reachable under the last menu item:

I am using the version 2.4.4 build 492, which can be downloaded here

The T-Clock itself is a portable program, using about 2 MByte of your diskdrive.
The resulting calendar like I did the setting for is this:

But you can choose just to display one month at a time or 3...

So that could be an alternative for you.

BTW. The formatting of the time display was done by Windhawk.
I don't use ElevenClock anymore.

Edited May, 2 at 11:50 (WET):
Went back to Start11 with ElevenClock.

andrew129260 · Apr 30, 2024

Get gadget pack and uninstall all gadgets except for the calendar. Put it wherever you want on your desktop

8GadgetPack - Gadgets for Windows 11 / 10 / 8.1 / 7

This is an image I took off the net, but it can be in english

Ghot · Apr 30, 2024

Post #9 this topic, is what I want.
Someone using Explorer Patcher, which can turn ON the Windows 10 calendar on Windows 11... needs to turn that Windows 10 calendar ON and OFF and have a program like RegShot, discover the registry entries involved.

Then, I could just apply those registry tweaks.

Like this, maybe...

1. Open Explorer Patcher, and open RegShot
2. In RegShot, take the 1st "shot" of the Registry.
3. In Explorer Patcher, turn the Windows 10 calendar ON.
4. In RegShot, take the 2nd "shot" of the registry.
5. In RegShot, compare the two "shots" and see the differences.

The "differences" will be the registry tweaks needed to enable the Windows 10 calendar.
Then they could just post the "differences" file on here.
I can figure it out from that.

andrew129260 · Apr 30, 2024

Ghot said:
Post #9 this topic, is what I want.
Someone using Explorer Patcher, which can turn ON the Windows 10 calendar on Windows 11... needs to turn that Windows 10 calendar ON and OFF and have a program like RegShot, discover the registry entries involved.

Then, I could just apply those registry tweaks.

Have fun :)

You should start playing around with virtual machines, or even just windows sandbox, it's fun :)

Fabler2 · Apr 30, 2024

Ghot said:
Does it still work with Notifications Disabled?
If it's just an overlay for the W11 calendar... then with Notifications disabled...

Plus... it's kind of big and ugly.

At least you're the closest so far.

I'm not real big on colorful and noisy.

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Ugly yes, big - is debatable. Colourful and noisy perhaps

kelper · Apr 30, 2024

I have notifcations turned off but the calendar still opens when I click on the date. What am I missing?

BunnyJ · Apr 30, 2024

FWIW.,… in case no one has mentioned this, I use this product

Rainlendar

www.rainlendar.net

Ghot · Apr 30, 2024

kelper said:
I have notifcations turned off but the calendar still opens when I click on the date. What am I missing?

If you have the BELL icon on the Taskbar or the Notifications/Focus items IN the calendar.... you don't have Notifications disabled.

kelper · Apr 30, 2024

But I do have notifications off!

Ghot · Apr 30, 2024

BunnyJ said:
FWIW.,… in case no one has mentioned this, I use this product

I came across that yesterday. Looks wise, it's nice, but it's not free and it has too much other stuff attached to it.

Ghot · Apr 30, 2024

kelper said:
But I do have notifications off!

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Do you have the BELL icon in the Taskbar... far right?

I already have everything in Settings that has to do with Notifications or Focus... turned OFF. Everything.

I'm about ready to break out my old retail XP CD, or my retail Win 7 DVD.

kelper · Apr 30, 2024

Ghot said:
Do you have the BELL icon in the Taskbar... far right?

yes

Ghot · Apr 30, 2024

kelper said:
yes

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Then Notifications is still enabled.
See post #1, this topic.

I have no idea why MS decided to join Notifications and the Calendar, at the hip.
But if you disable Notifications with that tutorial... it breaks the calendar.

andrew129260 · Apr 30, 2024

@Ghot see my post for the reg keys

Ghot · Apr 30, 2024

andrew129260 said:
@Ghot see my post for the reg keys

Much bigger than I thought. And it's all in HEX! Oh noes, I was afraid of that.

NormanF · Apr 30, 2024

How about the Notion Calendar? Its integrated with Notion so you can use it to plan your tasks and daily activities.

Ghot · Apr 30, 2024

andrew129260 said:
You should start playing around with virtual machines, or even just windows sandbox, it's fun :)

Stuff like that was fun for me, about 15++ years ago.
These days... I just want things to work well out of the box.

Best sig I've seen on 10 or 11 Forums.