This has been addressed before on other threads; I'll summarize the findings:

Not possible normally, through registry tweaks or reshacking. tclock2's "icons only" feature sets the size of the buttons to the size of the icons, so the text is cut off, therefore invisible.

It is possible to subclass the task switch area and explicitly tell it not to draw icons, I wrote a proggie that does that. It fails under XP when several tasks are grouped under one button and accessed by a popup menu, because the popup menu is drawn independantly of the main task switch area. This might be overcomeable with a little work. Unfortunately, I don't have access to the tclock2 source code, so it would involve running a separate app on top of tclock2 (assuming you need tclock2's other functions).

Alternatively, ditch the standard taskswitch and replace it. My "TaskSwitchHTML" does just that - it eats up quite a bit of resources though... it was just a 'proof of concept' app after all.

i see, another delicate thing, thanks for the information

and maybe you should try, the tclock2 source is avaible here:
http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/Tc2_source120.zip

Yippee! /me downloads that straight away

One iconless task switch coming up!

Yea. WinT and I tried like a bugger to get rid of those icons... Came to the conclusion that something had to be coded to make them go away.

grigri: any luck ?

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