Are you a military person who's completely ingrained in understanding 17:34 rather than the simplistic 5:34 PM? Or maybe you simply want to get rid of AM and PM altogether considering you must be in one very scary place not to be able to figure out whether or not it's day time or night time while sitting at your computer! Personally, it saves me the space to stick in one more taskbar icon!In order to change how the time is displayed on your computer, click on Start, Control Panel, and choose Regional and Language Options.
Next, on the dialog, click the Customize button underneath the Standards and formats section. Below that button, you'll also see an example of how each setting is currently configured for Number, Currency, Time, Short Date, and Long Date.Finally, click the Time tab and you can now change the format in the Time Format textbox.When you open it, however, it really is not very helpful since it pretty much looks the same except for the lowercase and uppercase letters. Here's the guide on how to set the time format:
The uppercase H or HH stands for 24-hour format, whereas the lower case h and hh means 12-hour format. The single h is if you do not want to display leading zeros for single digit hours and hh is if you want a leading zero.
So in our case if you want the time in 24-hour format, choose H:mm:ss. With the defaults, the minutes and seconds will also display leading zeros for single digit numbers, but you can simply delete one m and one s if you don't want those displayed either!
Here are the rules if you want to type in your own time format:
Display time in a 24-hour format - Type uppercase H or HH for the hour
Display time in a 12-hour format - Type lowercase h or hh for the hour
Display leading zeros in single-digit hours - Type two characters, HH or hhSuppress the display of leading zeros in single-digit hours, minutes, or seconds - Type a single uppercase H, or lowercase letter, such as h, m, or s
Display a single letter to indicate AM or PM - Type lowercase t
Display two letters to indicate AM or PM - Type lowercase tt
Display text - Type single quotation marks (') around textIf you noticed there is an option called
Display text so that if you feel like having some fun, you can put in your own text!
Enjoy!
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
How to Recover Accidentally Deleted Files.
Oh crap! You deleted a file a few days ago that you just realized you still need! And on top of that you already emptied out your Recycle Bin, so there's nothing there! Well basically, Windows has nothing built-in that will help you recover your deleted file. However, thanks to the way Windows works, when you delete a file or even empty it from your recycle bin, Windows does not actually DELETE the file off the hard drive, it simply deletes the reference to the file.
For example, when you go to a library to find a book, you usually go to the index catalog and find the aisle number for your book. If you delete the index that tells you which aisle that book is located at, the book is still there, but no one may ever find it again! That's the same way deleting works in Windows, the index to that file is deleted, but not the file itself. But of course, this now means that Windows can use that space to write other files when the time arises! It counts that space as free space, so you have to hope that Windows has not already written over that section!
The program that can help you recover your deleted files is Recuva (to be pronounced as Recover). It's from the same people who wrote CCleaner, which is a great program to delete temporary files and clean out your registry. I scanned my C drive and it found 5495 files in about 30 seconds!!! Pretty damn fast!!! You can also filter the contents by typing in the name of the file or extension in the Find box.Source:
http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/23/recover-accidentally-deleted-files/
For example, when you go to a library to find a book, you usually go to the index catalog and find the aisle number for your book. If you delete the index that tells you which aisle that book is located at, the book is still there, but no one may ever find it again! That's the same way deleting works in Windows, the index to that file is deleted, but not the file itself. But of course, this now means that Windows can use that space to write other files when the time arises! It counts that space as free space, so you have to hope that Windows has not already written over that section!
The program that can help you recover your deleted files is Recuva (to be pronounced as Recover). It's from the same people who wrote CCleaner, which is a great program to delete temporary files and clean out your registry. I scanned my C drive and it found 5495 files in about 30 seconds!!! Pretty damn fast!!! You can also filter the contents by typing in the name of the file or extension in the Find box.Source:
http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/23/recover-accidentally-deleted-files/
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