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disable clock in xp home

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by cantu.stephen

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I know I have done it before that there is a registry change that you can do or add to the registry to make it so that when you double click the clock in xp home it will do nothing.
I have searched high and low through out the internet and cannot find it the thing is that I do not want to buy software to do it for me when I know I can do it on the registry for free.

I should also let it be know that I want the clock to stay there

now my question is what is it?

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by seanferd

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/103373-45-windows-clock

enjoy

You could also probably search the Windows directory for all instances of timedate.cpl, and delete all of them except the one in the /system32 folder, which you can then rename. (And zip it or move it somewhere you can find it if you need it without having to extract it from CD).

by cantu.stephen

I went ahead and found all instances of the file, it was not easy seeing as they all did not show up in the search.

I renamed them all to timedate.cpl.bak

they were in the following places
C:\windows\system32
C:\windows\system32\dllcache
C:\windows\$NIServicePackUninstall$ <--(I doubt that one made a difference but it was hidden so I said why not)
C:\windows\ServicePackFiles\i386

and then I went ahead and hid the date and time properties from the control panel

is there something else I should change to make it so people cant change the time

by tonythetiger

If you don't want to convert to NTFS, is to rename TIMEDATE.CPL (suggest DATETIME.CPL), then when you DO want to change the date/time, you can simply START->RUN->DATETIME.CPL

by seanferd

Windows recreates the file from any other copies in dllcache, etc.

edit: Unless you can turn off Windows File Protection.

by cantu.stephen

nope it does not and I am happy to report even after a few restarts it still has not come up and it only asked once that I was replacing a system file with an unknown file type and to put the cd in to fix it and I just said no and it has given me no problems

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