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Whenever I play games, those will always launch on the main monitor.
Since the system tray where the clock is located is only displayed on the taskbar on the main monitor, I can't see what time it is while playing my games unless I alt-tab.
What can I do to get the system tray on my secondary screen?
Nolonar
Posted 2014-05-14T20:44:33.137
Reputation: 1 874
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I just found this method that works quite well.
Lock all taskbars.Lock all taskbars again.While playing games, the clock will remain visible at all times.
Tested and works on Windows 7, 8/8.1, and 10.
Starting with Build 14328, the clock will remain on all taskbars in Windows 10.
Taskbar clock on all monitors: We heard a lot of requests for this from our gaming community. We’re happy to announce that for the first time since the taskbar was created, if you have multiple monitors and your taskbar set to show on all displays, the clock will now be visible on each Taskbar.
Edit 2016-08-05: This feature has been shipped with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (version 1607)
Nolonar
Posted 2014-05-14T20:44:33.137
Reputation: 1 874
I can move it to the other screen, but then there's no clock in my original screen! I am using Windows 8.1. – Alisa – 2015-12-22T00:17:16.783
@Alisa. That's the problem with Windows: You can't have the clock on multiple screens, but you can move it to any screen you want. All we can do now is write a feedback to MS and hope that they'll add an option for having the clock on multiple taskbars. – Nolonar – 2015-12-22T08:36:13.173
"This method might work on other versions of Windows": Unlocking and moving the taskbar is a pretty basic Windows feature, and it's been around for a very long time. :) – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2014-05-14T20:49:20.133
@techie007 When I googled for it, the only answers I found was not possible without 3rd party apps, so I thought maybe the taskbar couldn't be moved to other screens. – Nolonar – 2014-05-14T20:51:20.977
True, and moving it to another monitor may very well be a Windows 8+ thing (since it's the first to inherently support taskbars on more than one monitor). But the idea of unlocking and moving the taskbar around to different edges (and now different edges on different monitors) is a basic feature of Windows. Anyhow, carry on. :) – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2014-05-14T20:55:26.380
4I just tried it on Windows 7, and it worked great! You may (or may not) want to update your answer :) – bitsmack – 2014-05-14T21:44:43.643
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I'm not sure if this is true but remember that it worked in the past when I had a second monitor. Set your second monitor as the default one. Start your game in windowed mode and move it to your first monitor and resize it to fullscreen.
Montag451
Posted 2014-05-14T20:44:33.137
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If you want just clock and time (instead of the whole System Tray), you can install 8GadgetPack, then install it and add the gadgets for date and time, and drag them to the taskbar in the second monitor.
This way, you have the date and time in both monitors.
Alisa
Posted 2014-05-14T20:44:33.137
Reputation: 229
Where do you get get the date/time gadgets? The only time related gadget I see is the analog Clock which is not ideal. – Eric B. – 2015-12-21T21:10:41.573
It's not a single gadget. After installing 8GadgetsPack, get the "Calendar" and "Digiclock" gadgets (double click on them) and move them to the other monitor. – Alisa – 2015-12-22T00:14:37.683
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Windows 7 - In display control panel click on the screen where you want the taskbar. Check the "make this my main monitor" box. The taskbar will move to that screen automatically.
Adzy_166
Posted 2014-05-14T20:44:33.137
Reputation: 1
3Welcome to Superuser! When answering, make sure you read the whole question carefully. In this case, they mentioned that the problem is having the taskbar on the main monitor, so moving the taskbar by switching which monitor is the main isn't going to fix the problem. – 8bittree – 2015-09-16T13:07:56.400
Other gadget utilities are available, e.g. Rainmeter.
– Andrew Morton – 2015-08-15T18:30:12.427Since Windows 10 Anniversary upgrade (August 2016) clock is displayed on all taskbars by default. – gronostaj – 2016-08-04T21:28:02.580
1A workaround could be installing a clock gadget and putting it on the 2nd monitor. – Wutnaut – 2014-05-14T20:53:17.057
@Wutnaut That would only work on Vista or 7, since those are the only versions to support Gadgets. – Nolonar – 2014-05-14T20:57:27.300
let us know what version of Windows you're running next time. – Wutnaut – 2014-05-14T21:00:13.683
@Wutnaut I decided not to, so that other answers may provide solutions for other versions of Windows. Of course, you're free to post your comment as answer. – Nolonar – 2014-05-14T21:02:19.330