taskbar clock & notification area downloading updates icon

[Kiki Burgh]

hello! is there an unattended way to:

(1) hiding the taskbar clock (since i have the sidebar clock running) ... i checked on some reg files but it comes with start menu & taskbar settings ... tried to refer to this too:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects2]
"Settings"=hex:28,00,00,00,ff,ff,ff,__,??,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,3c,00,00,00,1e,\
  00,00,00,fe,ff,ff,ff,e4,02,00,00,02,04,00,00,02,03,00,00

but nothing a bit modified than these:

0A = Always on Top (as described, but shows NO clock, normal-size classic start menu icons)

0C = Show small icons in Start Menu (as described, but shows NO clock, taskbar NOT on top)

06 = Always on Top and Show small icons in Start Menu and Show Clock

i'm aiming to have taskbar always on top, show small icons & no clock ...

i maybe wrong but i don't recall seeing a don't show/no clock tweak in nLite (actually requested for it from nuhi before here but maybe forgot about it )

(2) setting the Downloading Updates ??% (lightbulb icon) to always show ... i've manually customized this via the taskbar properties (to always show) but what normally happens is it appears then disappears after some time then appears (same cycle) & for those applied win updates that doesn't need to be restarted, i wouldn't know if it these already reached 100%/completed ... or is it the normal behaviour of this icon to just appear & disappear anytime during the download stage?

appreciate any feedback. cheers!

Edited January 23, 2010 by Kiki Burgh