Has anyone found a replacement for the taskbar clock that works? I need binocculars to see the default clock.
Thanks
The entire bottom right hand side of the taskbar is a fiasco.
1. Yes, like you, I not only can't see that time but the font sucks too.
2. When you click on time you get a small calendar and notifications. That's like when you're in your car and you turn on navigation the windshield wipers turn on too.
3. There's a Wifi/Volume Button. In 10 they were separate hard for some to decipher buttons. Now clicking on triggers both but it's not clear that they, as a group, are one button. And if I click it I also get notifications from Firefox above the settings. But I thought notifications were owned by the clock/calendar fiasco.
All of the above needs to be nuked. Here's the path out --
1. In a new build of 11 they've added a temperature on the left hand side of the taskbar, that is easier to read. Symmetry/design therefore demands they put a similar looking/easy to read clock on the right hand side of the taskbar.
So... that one move... insists that the apps in the taskbar be centered. Let's roll with that for a while. What to do about the Wifi indicator? Or on my rigs the CPU temperature indicator? Or the date? Or all the other tiny little system tray overflow do-dads?
2. In my head I see the concept of a Control Center. This is sort of what 11 is trying to do with widgets connected to the Weather in taskbar situation. But I say it should now incorporate notifications, settings, system tray. One stop shopping. And it would take up most of the screen when activated, hiding all other windows.
Even more fun -- you could access this center at the weather side or clock side. Or assign one if that's your fancy. (Personally I'd also add a bottom left hot corner, but then Windows should really already offer hot corners. Ahem. Dog Bless WinXCorners.)
Even even more fun -- RESTING MODE. If your PC realizes you're no longer using it -- it could present that Control Center automatically. Why do this? You'd see notifications, the time and date larger, the weather larger, and perhaps system info like RAM and storage and CPU temps. Of course you could customize or remove such widgets if need be. Touch any key and POOF it's gone and you're back on your desktop.
By implementing this a new feature could finally come back: moving the location of the taskbar. Suppose you move it to the left, which is advantageous because most people lack vertical screen space. The question then is where would the temperature and clock go? You got me, but perhaps they could be grouped together and be bottom left or bottom right. Or if that annoyed people then turn the clock and weather into 'app' icons in the taskbar. So you'd have a round clock (which showed the time) and some sort of sun/moon with a number on it.
This big picture, to me, would simply the OS and have it make more sense.
