Geek Humor: Add Odd Characters To Window’s Notification Area
There is really no point to this trick other than trick to amuse yourself and others. We are going to add in odd symbols or characters to the Window’s Notification Area on the Taskbar to mess with your co-workers.
Open Control Panel and double click on Regional and Language Options.
Next, under the Formats tab click on the “Customize this format” button.
Now under the Time tab, enter in the character and / or symbols you think would get a great laugh in the AM / PM fields. You can basically enter in whatever you want up to 12 characters. Click OK twice to get out of Regional and Language Options.
Here are a few examples of what you can achieve. From your name to old chat emoticons.
If your co-worker is not aware of this trick … they will have a heck of a time trying to correct it. Each different example you create will show up now in the drop boxes.
This trick also works in XP. Control Panel \ Regional and Language Settings \ Customize \ Time tab.
Have Fun! Please share any funny stories you might have with this one!
Daily Email Updates
You can get our how-to articles in your inbox each day for free. Just enter your name and email below:
ha ha!! that was one of the best and simple trick!! thanks :-0 ..
Just remember whatever you place in the time field will show up on emails that are forwarded and any other item that includes your system date and time fields.
Cant wait for April Fools Day…
I toyed with it in XP, changing AM to the fully spelled out words that lurk behind WTF — it carries over into your time stamp in Outlook as well. Rather surprised when a reply from a coworker contained WHATTHEF—. Nice little heart attack there.
vista won't let me change anything. it keeps saying i used a wrong character no matter what i put in it
i got it…
awesome this is soo funny, heres my story:
i did it on my brother's xp, typing, $@%%@#, he was too worried, and went into so much to try fix it, he even reformatted the comp! LOL,
@Hash:
Wow! that is pure evil! But extremely hilarious!
I did this to a guy at work when he forgot to lock his screen when walking away from his desk. Much better than changing the color scheme, wallpaper, etc… !!!
OMG - that is great! Can't wait to pull this one on somebody. Got a chuckle out of Nuckinfutz's!
"to explosion" or "till the end" are pretty neat.