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Windows 10: Show Date and Time in Taskbar with Small Icons
A quick and easy way to customize the taskbar
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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You’ve been changing some things to your computer, maybe eveninstalling a clean copy of your OS, and now you want to show the date and time in the taskbar with small icons on Windows 10.
In fact, many prefer to have their dashboard showing all the essentials in the taskbar. And small icons or buttons look sleek. So, why not? You can arrange to see the date and time, system icons, and programs running in the background – all in the taskbar.
How to display date and time on the taskbar in Windows 10?
Now, when it comes to preferences, different users want different options – some like a cleaner desktop, and others want everything handy.
And while you can hide ormake the taskbar not transparent in Windows 10, the topic of modifying thetaskbarwidth and the size of the icons or displayed details is still a very hot one.
How can I show the date in the taskbar with small icons?
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In the settings windows, look forUse smalltaskbarbuttonsand enable the toggle for it.
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Once done, thetaskbaricons will automatically change to small ones.
This action can, of course, be undone, and you can always choose tomake the taskbar icons bigger. While you’re in thetaskbarsettings menu, you can also look around and adjust other features as you like.
Now that you can show the date and time in the taskbar with small icons in Windows 10, you mayback up the taskbar in Windows 10at any time.
We hope this guide has proven useful and that you cancustomize Windows 10the way you wanted.
Should you have any useful recommendations on customizing thetaskbar, feel free to use the comments section below.
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Milan Stanojevic
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Milan has been enthusiastic about technology ever since his childhood days, and this led him to take interest in all PC-related technologies. He’s a PC enthusiast and he spends most of his time learning about computers and technology.
Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s one of the Troubleshooting experts in our worldwide team, specializing in Windows errors & software issues.
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Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s specialized in Windows errors & software issues.
