ElevenClock VS ExplorerPatcher

I use this to take over my clock needs. It's pretty nice, very configurable.

The feature to see seconds in the taskbar is currently only available in the dev channel, but I can recommend you to try ElevenClock, it can add seconds and can also customize your clock.

Maybe you should also take a look at Elevenclock, it's more customizable.

This feature does not exist by default, but there are some 3rd party tools that can change the Windows 11 clock, such as https://github.com/martinet101/ElevenClock

Example: https://github.com/martinet101/ElevenClock/issues/489

But my colleague uses something which adds it, I think it's this https://github.com/martinet101/ElevenClock/releases.

ElevenClock

I found a third party app called ElevenClock that can add seconds to the taskbar clock and has some other extra functionality as well. It looks native but works as an overlay over part of the taskbar and is visually a bit glitchy when clicked/hovered over with a mouse.

Nevermind, this app solved my problem. https://github.com/martinet101/ElevenClock

You can use https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher to change the hotkey

> Windows 11 brings absolutely nothing on the table

It also removes a leg from the table, the one labelled 'usability'.

Attaching a 3rd-party leg to fill the gap helps (https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher), but it's not an ideal solution

ExplorerPatcher

I had more problems with it being wide, merging all app windows in a single icon, showing only icon rather then app title, and not being able to move to top of screen

That may be fixed with https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher which restores win10 bar, there's no builtin solution to any of the above afaik

Thanks for letting me know. I looked into it, and apparently it's still even possible to activate on later versions of Windows with registry edits and helper software: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/discussions/167

Not going to install something that seems so vague, but I do use ExplorerPatcher [1] on my Windows 11 machines to basically re-create Windows 10 UI and fix all of the annoyances I have with Windows 11. I've got the old right click menu, the old task bar, the old alt-tab interface, pretty much the whole thing. Only reason I use Windows 11 over Windows 10 is because Windows 11 seems to handle my triple monitor setup better, especially when waking up from sleep.

[1] - https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher