Three-clock Configuration in System Time

Windows can display up to three additional clocks and time in other time zones. Viewing can be done by hovering or pointing to the taskbars clock.

Lets dig into the topic from Windows to registry. 

 

To add, click ‘Change date and time settings…’ and configure those clocks located at additional Clocks Tab. For each clock, click to check ‘Show this clock’. Select a time zone from the drop-down list, type a name up to 15 characters, and then click OK.

Editing Additional Clocks using Windows Registry

Use the start search, type “regedit” and go to the path below:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\TimeDate\AdditionalClocks\1

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\TimeDate\AdditionalClocks\2

Data Value	Type
DisplayName	String Value	any name
Enable	DWORD Value	1 or 0
TzRegKeyName	String Value	Time Zone

 

Time Zone		Registry Value
UTC-12:00	International Dateline West	Dateline Standard Time
UTC-11:00	Coordinated Universal Time	UTC-11
UTC-10:00	Hawaii	Hawaiian Standard Time
UTC-9:00	Alaska	Alaska Standard Time
UTC-8:00	Baja California	Pacific Standard Time (Mexico)
UTC-7:00	Arizona	US Mountain Standard Time
UTC-7:00	Chihuahua, La Paz, Mazatlan	Mountain Standard Time (Mexico)
UTC-7:00	Mountain Time (US & Canada)	Mountain Standard Time
UTC-6:00	Central America	Central America Standard Time
UTC-6:00	Central America (US & Canada)	Central Standard Time
UTC-6:00	Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey	Central Standard Time (Mexico)
UTC-6:00	Saskatchewan	Canada Central Standard Time
UTC-5:00	Bogota, Lima, Quito	SA Pacific Standard Time
UTC-5:00	Eastern Time (US & Canada)	Eastern Standard Time
UTC-5:00	Indiana (East)	US Eastern Standard Time
UTC-4:30	Caracas	Venezuela Standard Time
UTC-4:00	Asuncion	Paraguay Standard Time
UTC-4:00	Atlantic Time (Canada)	Atlantic Standard Time
UTC-4:00	Cuiaba	Central Brazilian Standard Time
UTC-4:00	Georgetown, La Paz, Manaus, San Juan	SA Western Standard Time
UTC-4:00	Santiago	Pacific SA Standard Time
UTC-3:30	Newfoundland	Newfoundland Standard Time
UTC-3:00	Brasilia	E. South America Standard Time
UTC-3:00	Buenos Aires	Argentina Standard Time
UTC-3:00	Cayenne, Fortaleza	SA Eastern Standard Time
UTC-3:00	Greenland	Greenland Standard Time
UTC-3:00	Montevideo	Montevideo Standard Time
UTC-3:00	Salvador	Bahia Standard Time
UTC-2:00	Coordinated Universal Time-02	UTC-02
UTC-2:00	Mid-Atlantic	Mid-Atlantic Standard Time
UTC-1:00	Azores	Azores Standard Time
UTC-1:00	Cape Verde Is.	Cape Verde Standard Time
UTC	Casablanca	Morocco Standard Time
UTC	Coordinated Universal Time	UTC
UTC	Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London	GMT Standard Time
UTC	Monrovia, Reykjavik	Greenwich Standard Time
UTC+1:00	Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna	W. Europe Standard Time
UTC+1:00	Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague	Central Europe Standard Time
UTC+1:00	Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris	Romance Standard Time
UTC+1:00	Sarajevo, Skopje, Warsaw, Zagreb	Central European Standard Time
UTC+1:00	West Central Africa	W. Central Africa Standard Time
UTC+1:00	Windhoek	Namibia Standard Time
UTC+2:00	Amman	Jordan Standard Time
UTC+2:00	Athens, Bucharest	GTB Standard Time
UTC+2:00	Beirut	Middle East Standard Time
UTC+2:00	Cairo	Egypt Standard Time
UTC+2:00	Damascus	Syria Standard Time
UTC+2:00	Harare, Pretoria	South Africa Standard Time
UTC+2:00	Helsinki, Kyiv, Riga, Sofia, Tallinn, Vilnius	FLE Standard Time
UTC+2:00	Istanbul	Turkey Standard Time
UTC+2:00	Jerusalem	Israel Standard Time
UTC+2:00	Nicosia	E. Europe Standard Time
UTC+3:00	Baghdad	Arabic Standard Time
UTC+3:00	Kaliningrad,Minsk	Kaliningrad Standard Time
UTC+3:00	Kuwait, Riyadh	Arab Standard Time
UTC+3:00	Nairobi	E. Africa Standard Time
UTC+3:30	Tehran	Iran Standard Time
UTC+4:00	Abu Dhabi, Muscat	Arabian Standard Time
UTC+4:00	Baku	Azerbaijan Standard Time
UTC+4:00	Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd	Russian Standard Time
UTC+4:00	Port Luis	Mauritius Standard Time
UTC+4:00	Tbilisi	Georgian Standard Time
UTC+4:00	Yerevan	Caucasus Standard Time
UTC+4:30	Kabul	Afghanistan Standard Time
UTC+5:00	Islamabad, Karachi	Pakistan Standard Time
UTC+5:00	Tashkent	West Asia Standard Time
UTC+5:30	Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi	India Standard Time
UTC+5:30	Sri Jayewardenepura	Sri Lanka Standard Time
UTC+5:45	Kathmandu	Nepal Standard Time
UTC+6:00	Astana	Central Asia Standard Time
UTC+6:00	Dhaka	Bangladesh Standard Time
UTC+6:00	Ekaterinburg	Ekaterinburg Standard Time
UTC+6:30	Yangon (Rangoon)	Myanmar Standard Time
UTC+7:00	Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta	SE Asia Standard Time
UTC+8:00	Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Urumqi	China Standard Time
UTC+8:00	Krasnoyarsk	North Asia Standard Time
UTC+8:00	Kuala Lumpur, Singapore	Singapore Standard Time
UTC+8:00	Perth	W. Australia Standard Time
UTC+8:00	Taipei	Taipei Standard Time
UTC+8:00	Ulaanbaatar	Ulaanbaatar Standard Time
UTC+9:00	Irkutsk	North Asia East Standard Time
UTC+9:00	Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo	Tokyo Standard Time
UTC+9:00	Seoul	Korea Standard Time
UTC+9:30	Adelaide	Cen. Australia Standard Time
UTC+9:30	Darwin	AUS Central Standard Time
UTC+10:00	Brisbane	E. Australia Standard Time
UTC+10:00	Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney	AUS Eastern Standard Time
UTC+10:00	Guam, Port Moresby	West Pacific Standard Time
UTC+10:00	Hobart	Tasmania Standard Time
UTC+10:00	Yakutsk	Yakutsk Standard Time
UTC+11:00	Solomon Is., New Caledonia	Central Pacific Standard Time
UTC+11:00	Vladivostok	Vladivostok Standard Time
UTC+12:00	Auckland, Wellington	New Zealand Standard Time
UTC+12:00	Coordinated Universal Time+12	UTC+12
UTC+12:00	Fiji	Fiji Standard Time
UTC+12:00	Magadan	Magadan Standard Time
UTC+13:00	Nuku’alofa	Tonga Standard Time
UTC+13:00	Samoa	Samoa Standard Time

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Displaying the Run Option in Start Menu

Start Menu Run option is not included as default feature in newer version of Windows. Probably the designers  is comfortable and want to popularize the Start Search feature. Anyway, how to re-enable the option is easy…

Right Click the Taskbar > Properties > Start Menu Tab and Click “Customize…” button

Then, Click to check “Run command” to enable the option…

Using the Registry to Enable “Run…” item in Start Menu

You can also enable the option using Windows Registry if everything seems goes wrong e.g. the Taskbar hangs

So, open your Windows Registry (Win logo key + R) and type “Regedit” and go to the registry folder below

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Once you reach the folder, right-click > New > DWORD (32-bit) Value and use the value name “Start_ShowRun” and data as 1 as shown above.

Finally, Restart your computer afterwards…

That’s it!

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Quick Tip: HTML Printing using command prompt

If you have a long website information to print everyday. Here’s the command that you can execute.

HTML Printing via command line

rundll32.exe mshtml.dll,PrintHTML "filename"

Example

rundll32.exe mshtml.dll,PrintHTML "H:\study\formatparagraph3.html"

 

Enjoy!!!

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Google Analytics Visitors Reports

Google Analytics is a service that generates visitors website statistics. The tool made it easy for non-specialist and experts to practice performance focused analysis.

New vs Returning

 

This visitor report gives you a quick view at the ratio of people who had never been to your site to returning visitors by number of visits and its percentage.

You can look at the relative economic impact of new vs returning visitors by viewing the Ecommerce statistics and adding advanced segments for New and Returning Visitors. When you segment the report this way, you get side-by-side statistics for things like overall revenue, the number of transactions, and the average value of each transaction for each population.

Frequency & Recency  

This reports gives you a quick look at the user interest in your site from the view of how frequently visitors return to your site within a time frame. The data are calculated per unique visitor.

Location  

The report lets you take at look at the visitors origin e.g. Continent, Sub Continent, Country and City. 

Understanding each users location can also help you where to focus your advertising.

Audience Overview

The Audience reports views lets you to understand the demographics, behaviors, and technologies of your visitors. For example, where do your best customers live? Or, identify geographic areas that send you high-engagement traffic, see at engagement metrics such as Pages/Visit and Avg. Time on Site.

Is your visitors made up of new audiences or visitors who come back to the site regularly?

What paths do visitors take through your site? Look at the Flow report.

Overview

A view of visitor metrics.

You can see visits shown as line graph, new vs returning visitors as pie chart, and a list of values for each of the following metrics:

• Visits - total no. of visits
• Unique Visitors - total no. of unique visitors
• Pageviews - total no. of pages viewed
• Pages per Visit - average number of pages viewed
• Average Time on Site - average time on site for each visitor
• Bounce Rate - percent of single-page visits
• New Visitors - percent of total visitors who visited your site for the first time

In the table at the bottom of the report, you can see metrics for the following dimensions:

• Language
• Country/Territory
• City
• Browser
• Operating System
• Service Provider
• Mobile Operating System
• Mobile Service Provider
• Mobile Screen Resolution

Browser & OS  

This report lets you see the different web browsers users are using to visit your site, along with other data about the systems such as operating system, screen resolution, screen colors, Flash version, and Java support.

This information is helpful when you are making design decisions about your site.

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Theming Settings: Appearance and Desktop Wallpapers

Another way to access and enable themes in Windows 7 and above…

This tip is usually not being use everyday and usually for everyday geek computing only.

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl desk,@Themes /Action:OpenTheme /file:Filename

You can create a shortcut for the syntax above for applying windows themes. There are many free themes available at microsoft and all you need to do is to visit the site and choose any theme that you want.

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl desk,@Themes /Action:OpenTheme /file:"C:\Users\User\Downloads\Ice.themepack"

Cool?! Thanks for reading the article!

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Quick Tip: Connect to Network Window

Connect or reconnect to available wireless networks, wired, dial-up and VPN connection that you can connect to.

What if you can’t find or click the Connect To Window?

All you need to do is to run the command below:

rundll32.exe van.dll,RunVAN

Happy New Year!

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