How to set the first of the week to be Sunday in the Calendar that is displayed in the System Tray of Windows Vista Home Basic. I tried setting the first day of the week to Sunday in Windows Calendar (thinking that it might work) and yet still it displays the first day of the week to be Monday. Moreover there are not settings available on the System Tray Calendar
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Using regedit, browse to HKCU\Control Panel\International, look for the iFirstDayOfWeek key and set the value to 0 for Monday, 1 for Tuesday, 2 for Wednesday, etc ...
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4for users with windows 8.1, the correct path is
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International
. Also to open registory editor, pressstart button + r
simultaneously and typeregedit
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On Windows 10:
Right-click on the Taskbar Clock area. Choose
Adjust date/time
It opens a dialog, with a
Formats
section, where there is a display-only summary of options, includingFirst day of week
. Click the linkChange date and time Formats
On the dialog that now appears, you can choose what one you want on the
First day of week
combobox.
I ran into this exact issue when getting issued a UK-regioned desktop.
You need to go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Settings
and pick a region that starts the week on Sunday, like US.
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3To add to this: In Windows 7 this is an independent setting and can be found on the "Date" tab when customizing the locale.– JoeyOct 27, 2009 at 7:40
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Just go Regional and Language Settings, there is a combo box: "First day of week:", and you know what to do next...
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1Hard to understand why this was downvoted. It's a reasonable solution, though maybe not the best one. Nov 23, 2012 at 3:56
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- If you are on windows 10, here are steps :
- Right click on the date and time area on the taskbar
- click on properties
- in the setting screen, on the upper right hand corner, there will be a search box, type : first
- You will see the option change the date and time format. Click On that.
- on the next screen, first option will be to change the first day of the week.
Reg script
Adding to user8228
's answer:
Create a .reg
file with the following content:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[hkey_current_user\control panel\international]
"ifirstdayofweek"="0"
; the change is immediate
Either click on it to be imported using graphical confirmation dialog, or use reg import *.reg
command to do the same from the command-line.
Note
- case doesn't matter except in the first line
REG_SZ
(string) type is indicated by quotes ("0"
)- double quotes are mandatory as single quotes won't work
reg
command is thereg.exe
executable in%windir%\system32
;
is for adding comments (commenting the line) within thereg
file
By default, windows will show Sunday to Saturday... if you want to change it to Monday to Sunday follow these steps.
Step-1 Open control panel (Windows button+X, Select control panel (P))
Step-2 In Clock, Language and Region select Change date, time, or number format
Step-3 In formats tab go to the first day of week select Monday (or whatever the day you would like to start your week)
Step-4 Press Apply and OK.
Now check your system calendar. it's done :)