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Add Additional Clocks in Vista

Windows Vista provides us with an option to add additional clocks for other time zones. Up to two additional clocks can be added. These clocks will be displayed when you click or move your mouse over (hover) the clock displayed on the taskbar. I don't know how useful they will be, but if can't find any uses, you might as well play around with them or use them to show off! The steps to add additional clocks are given below.

Works On: All Versions

Step 1: Open the "Control Panel" by clicking on the control panel option in your start menu.

Step 2: Select "Clock, Language, and Region" option from the options displayed in the start menu.

Step 3: Under "Date and Time", select "Add clocks for different time zones". The following "Date and Time" window must be displayed.

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Step 4: To display the clock, check or place a tick mark beside the "Show this clock" option.

Step 5: Select the time zone for your clock from the list of available time zones.

Step 6: Enter a display name that's meaningful and click "OK".

This new clock will be displayed when you hover your mouse over the clock in the taskbar. You can add another clock using the above method. Go ahead, try it out.

User Account Control (UAC)

You might have seen the Apple advertisement mocking Vista's user account control. Is UAC that bad? Let us see ...

Say you downloaded a piece of software, for ripping your music cd's, from your favorite p2p program. Do you know for sure, that the software you downloaded does not harm your computer? If this software tries to access your computers device manager or registry editor or decides to perform any other task that requires administrator privileges, Vista's UAC would pop up and ask you for your confirmation.

Consider the situation where the software you have installed is a malware and it tries to access your registry. Vista would pop-up a notification asking for your permission to continue with the programs request. Now, why would you require access to the registry for ripping music?! No reason whatsoever. You just click 'cancel' and uninstall the software you have downloaded.

Vista's UAC has just saved you and your computer!

Read more about UAC here .

That's my take on UAC, use the comments to express your view.


PS: If you are still not convinced and want to disable Vista's UAC, I will be blogging about that in my next post.