How to Display a Disabled Taskbar Clock

If the Windows XP Taskbar clock has disappeared and is disabled, the following Registry edit may redisplay the clock. This post provides step by step windows xp support to resolve this issue.

Normally the Windows XP Taskbar contains the system clock on the right side in the Notification Area. While you can remove the Taskbar clock, what if the clock has disappeared?

Normally all you need to do is right-click an empty area of the Notification Area, choose "Properties", click the "Taskbar" tab when the "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" dialog box displays, check the "Show the clock" box, and click "OK". But what if the "show the clock" checkbox is grayed out / disabled?

1. Open "regedit.exe" from the "Start" - "Run" dialog box.

2. Navigate to the following key: My Computer \ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ policies \ Explorer.

3. You should see a REG_DWORD value named HideClock. Double-click this and change its value to 0.

4. Close the Registry Editor. You will need to logoff and back on or restart your machine for the change to take effect.

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Rasdiag.exe Support Tool in Windows XP

This post descrive how to use Rasdiag.exe Support Tool in Windows XP.The Remote Access Service Diagnostics Tool (Rasdiag.exe) collects diagnostic information about remote support services and places that information in a file. Administrators can use this tool to work with Microsoft Product Support Services to troubleshoot remote connection issues by taking a snapshot of the configuration data and capturing an attempted remote connection.

To start Rasdiag, click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then press ENTER. At the command prompt, type rasdiag.exe, and then press ENTER. Rasdiag.exe uses the following command-line switches.
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Parameter-------------------Description
-r (ipaddr)-------------------Enable remote sniff.
-t ---------------------------Enable remote routing table collection (requires -r).
(Filename.rdg)--------------Extract Rasdiag file (for example: rasdiag.exe sample.rdg).
/?---------------------------Display Help.
-?---------------------------Display Help.

When you run Rasdiag, you see the following information:

Preparing WindowsXP for RAS diagnostics.

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RASDIAG - RAS Diagnostic/Troubleshooting Tool
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INSTRUCTIONS

1) At this time, please reproduce the problem you are seeing.
2) Once the problem has been reproduced, please return to this console
and press the space bar.
3) Wait for diagnostics and data collection process to complete. This
process will be complete the RASDIAG folder has opened on your
desktop. In this folder, you will find an .RDG file.
4) Please provide this .RDG file to your support contact.

NOTE: The netmon driver is actively capturing on this machine's
WAN and LAN interfaces. If you are able to successfully make a
connection, and the problem you are seeing is related to network-layer
connectivity, please perform the data-related action at this time
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STATUS: Waiting for you to REPRO and press the space bar in this console

After this is displayed, reproduce the issue you want to capture information about (for example, start a dial-up connection and log on to a server). After the action is completed, make the command prompt window the active window and press SPACEBAR. Pressing SPACEBAR causes Rasdiag to stop capturing information and write it to a compressed file with a .rdg extension. The name of the file is the date and time it was created. You can then send this file to your support contact.

This file contains a Network Monitor capture (.cap) and Rasdiag.txt file. To extract the files, type rasdiag filename.rdg. The contents of the compressed file are extracted in the same folder.

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