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I'm new here and somewhat confused. I'd like to create a skin for the windows clock in the system tray so that I can control the appearance of the time, tooltips, window that pops up when double clicked, etc. There are lots of programs that do this and it all seems very mysterious.

How does one go about doing this? The MSDN entries on skins were confusing. Some websites talk about patching system dll's, or requiring digital signatures. Are there Win32 API calls that need to be made? Help!
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
DesktopX
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
BigDogBigFeet is right. DesktopX is the way to go if you want to create your own cool looking clock etc.

Here's a gallery of some clocks created as widgets with DesktopX.
Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'd like to create a skin for the windows clock in the system tray


DesktopX won't skin the systray clock. You might want to check this out LINK
It may work for you, or maybe not. I really don't know much about it.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Your right it won't directly, but it can replace the entire Taskbar and do all the things Chris mentioned.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'll admit I'm no DX expert, but I can't recall ever seeing a DX systray that includes a clock. I've only seen clock widgets, that are seperate from the systray.
But in any case, DX is worth checking out.