How to Show Day of Week on Taskbar in Windows 10/11

Do you wish to display day of the week in Windows 11 or Windows 10 taskbar? Then you’re at the right place. In this post, you’ll learn how to show the day of the week on the taskbar in Windows 11 and Windows 10.

Meanwhile, the taskbar was smaller in Windows XP and Windows Vista, thus just the time was displayed by default. The date, day, and time were displayed if you set the taskbar thicker. However, the date and time are already displayed on Windows 10’s new taskbar. On the taskbar, the date is displayed in a short format, while the time is displayed in a long format. The format will vary depending on the system location and language of Windows that you use, but you may simply change it.

How to Show Day of the Week on Taskbar in Windows 10/11

So, here are the steps to show and display the day of the week in Windows 10 and Windows 11:

Step 1. Open Control Panel.

Step 2. When Control Panel opens, click the Clock and Region category.

Clock and Region

Step 3. Then select the Region in the Clock and Region window.

Region

Step 4. On the Region window, click the Additional settings button under the Formats tab.

Additional settings

Step 5. Navigate to the Date tab, add the “dddd, “string at the beginning of the Short date field.

Step 6. Click OK.

Step 7. You are done! The taskbar now shows the day of the week.

Show Day of Week on Taskbar

How Does it Work?

The current date is displayed in the taskbar of Windows 10 using the short date format. You may make it reveal any more information by changing its default setting. We’ve added a new dddd part to the sample above, which stretches to the day of the week.

The main drawback is that the change will affect any apps that use the tiny date format. This is a long-standing problem in Windows, which prevents you from modifying the date format for the system tray area separately. In many desktop contexts, alternative operating systems, such as Linux, offer this. Perhaps Windows will allow us to do the same in the future.

That’s it. These were the steps to show the day of the week in the Windows 10 and Windows 11 taskbar. Meanwhile, if you want to learn how to show the day of the week via Settings or Registry editor then read this.

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