If I drag my toolbar at the bottom of the screen higher, not only does the Toolbar grow in size, more Date/Time information is shown in the System Tray. If I resize the Toolbar to twice it's original size, I get the today's Day of the Week (Thursday, Friday, etc). If I drag it even further upwards, I get D/MM/YYYY as well. I want all three (time, day, date), but if I make the Toolbar that big, everything else is small. Especially the Quick Launch buttons, which are small even when enlarged via View/ Large Icons. Can I make the Quick Launch buttons bigger? Or at least get more date information in the System Tray despite being a smaller size Toolbar? I'd give up the "Thursday" entry if I could keep the D/MM/YYYY instead. NOTE: No gadgets please.

Your request is about as clear as mud :-(

Why not simply use the Vista side bar, which can display a clock, calender and whatever other gadgets you want. Individual items can be dragged off and placed anywhere on your desktop.

And now, for the hard of reading: FINE: Normal size Toolbar shows Time in System Tray. GOOD: Bigger size Toolbar shows Time, Day in System Tray. BEST: Biggest size Toolbar shows Time, Day, Date in System Tray. PROBLEM: Small Quick Launch buttons when tray is biggest size. Help good. Got help? PS. "No gadgets please" = No gadgets. Please.

"FINE: Normal size Toolbar shows Time in System Tray." Default -- No problem here! "GOOD: Bigger size Toolbar shows Time & Date on mine but Day in System Tray." Task Bar shows Time & Date on mine but Day not included -- Still no problem here! "BEST: Biggest size Toolbar shows Time, Day, Date in System Tray." When Task Bar is expanded 2X, Vista defaults to the above -- Still no biggie! "PROBLEM: Small Quick Launch buttons when tray is biggest size." Don't have this issue, Quick Launch buttons enlarge accordingly when enlarged via View/ Large Icons regardless of the size of my toolbar & my rez is 1600x1200. If indeed it turns out that this isn't a personal problem & you can actually get a setting fix within Vista (which I seriously doubt), then good for you. Or give T-Clock 3 or T-Clock x64 a try .... it isn't a gadget but it's a third party dll. Good luck!