Unfortunately Windows 10 removed the clock that Win 8.x displayed at the bottom left when opening the "Charms Bar" which was handy when watching a movie in fullscreen for example. Below is a clock script that I execute from my startup ahk script like so:
; WIN+C => show clock #c::run %A_AHKPath% "clock.ahk"
When I hit WIN+C It runs the clock script which displays a neat clock in a borderless fullscreen window.
As I don't use Cortana, I can use this shortcut.
To search (locally!) I simply hit the WIN key.
No need for cluttering my taskbar with a search box.
Here's the script in clock.ahk (comments as to improvements welcome):
#SingleInstance ignore top = 400 fontcolor = eeffff background = 8833cc Gui, -border -caption Gui, color, %background% Gui, margin, 0, %top% Gui, font, s96 c%fontcolor%, Times Gui, add, text, center w%A_ScreenWidth% r1 vdisplay Gui, font, s48 Gui, margin, 0, 0 Gui, add, text, center w%A_ScreenWidth% r1 vdate Gui, show, w%A_ScreenWidth% h%A_ScreenHeight% X0 Y0 Gosub, currentTime SetTimer, currentTime, 100 Return currentTime: GuiControl,, display, %A_Hour%:%A_Min%:%A_Sec% GuiControl,, date, %A_DD%. %A_MMMM% %A_YYYY% Return GuiEscape: GuiClose: #c:: ExitApp
Tips
- set top to adjust the vertical positioning from the top of your screen
- set fontcolor and background to any other hex color values you prefer
- to change the displayed date format, modify:
GuiControl,, date, %A_DD%. %A_MMMM% %A_YYYY%
- e.g.:
GuiControl,, date, %A_DD%.%A_MM%.%A_YYYY%
Issues
- There is the occasional flickering that I have not found a way to fix.
- I'd prefer to position the text vertically centered in the window without using top. How to?
- Not sure if the font is actually smoothly anti-aliased or how to make it so if it wasn't.