Windows 10: Showing seconds on clock caused problems, is there a fix?

I had a problem recently that when I launched my browser Brave or Chrome, the task bar would freeze and would need to be reset. After many hours of trying to fix it, nothing worked. That last thing I tried was to turn off the seconds display on the clock and that fixed it. I was using seconds display for many months before I had problems.Is this a known issue and is there a fix? I really need to see the seconds display.Thanks,

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Hide or Show Seconds on Taskbar Clock in Windows 10


Hello @jrjr,

You can use step 5 in Option Two of the tutorial below to manually change your "Long time" format to h:mm ss tt like below to have a space between time (hour/minutes) and seconds on the taskbar system clock.

*Arrow Change Date and Time Formats in Windows 10 Windows 10 General Tips Tutorials

 

How to show seconds on the Windows 10 tray clock

*Source : How to Show Seconds in Taskbar Clock in Windows 10?

1. Start Regedit.exe and go to the following registry branch:
   

1. Create a REG_DWORD value named ShowSecondsInSystemClock
   
2. Set its value data to 1.
   
3. Logoff and login back.
   

This adds seconds to the tray clock.

Works in Windows 10 Anniversary Update (v1607) and higher.

 

Seconds on taskbar clock

I’ve seen many articles on the internet that there’s an option to have seconds on the clock on the taskbar, but it doesn’t appear for me? I also tried the registry hack, but the show seconds in taskbar clock value was already set to 1, setting to 0 had no effect. Anyone knows about this issue and how to fix?