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Is there a way to move my taskbar clock onto my right monitor, so when I play games in full screen I can still see what time it is?

 

 

Here's how it looks by default, can I move the clock to the right monitor?

 

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By default Windows puts the taskbar with the clock on your Primary screen. Under WinXP, Win7 and I believe Win 8/8.1, as long as the taskbar isn't locked down, you can drag it to any of the 4 edges of a screen and from there onto a secondary screen, but you only get the ONE taskbar to use.

Under Windows 10 (and I just tested this as I'm typing), you have to have the "Show taskbars on all displays" setting in 'Taskbar and Start Menu Properties' turned OFF before dragging the taskbar with the clock to your secondary screen. Once you've moved said taskbar with clock to the secondary screen you can turn "Show taskbars on all displays" back on and the clock (along with the Action Center and all the System Tray icons) will stay on the secondary screen whilst still giving you a taskbar to use on the primary screen.

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set 2nd monitor as main monitor in Display properties, then unlock taskbar and drag main taskbar to monitor 1 and re-lock them.

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9 minutes ago, DXMember said:

set 2nd monitor as main monitor in Display properties, then unlock taskbar and drag main taskbar to monitor 1 and re-lock them.

Won't that make games open on the second monitor, if it's the main display?

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Just now, Lays said:

Won't that make games open on the second monitor, if it's the main display?

you can do it the other way around

 

off-topic: modern games are aware of multi monitor setups and should have an option under settings for which monitor to display on, older games suck ballz

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15 minutes ago, DXMember said:

you can do it the other way around

 

off-topic: modern games are aware of multi monitor setups and should have an option under settings for which monitor to display on, older games suck ballz

Nevermind turns out I didn't even need to switch monitor defaults, I just unlocked it and dragged it over and relocked it.

 

Can't believe it was that simple.. -.-

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