• 1

Full Screen Countdown Timer


Question

I am looking for a free full screen count down timer program for windows.  I need it to countdown from 10 days showing days, hours, minutes, seconds.  This is just a one time deal we are looking at doing at work and I am mounting a 17" monitor in our breakroom just for this 1 time function.  

 

Anyone know where I can find one? I need it to be full screen. I will be removing the mouse/keyboard from the terminal once its running and counting down. 

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

10 answers to this question

Recommended Posts

  • 0

Do you have a choice of OSes to run this on?  MS has a Metro (fullscreen) alarm utility with countdown and stopwatch.  Not sure whether it's even built-in or not...

 

[edit]  Never mind...seems it can't go any higher than 12:59:59.

 

Though I'm sure there's plenty other such Metro apps.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0

Will this computer be connected to the internet? If so, you can always use http://www.online-stopwatch.com/full-screen-stopwatch/

 

It will not. Its just going to be a small thinclient (iGEL)  that will be running Windows XP or CE

 

Do you have a choice of OSes to run this on?  MS has a Metro (fullscreen) alarm utility with countdown and stopwatch.  Not sure whether it's even built-in or not...

 

[edit]  Never mind...seems it can't go any higher than 12:59:59.

 

Though I'm sure there's plenty other such Metro apps.

 

Yeah Windows XP or CE only

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0

It will not. Its just going to be a small thinclient (iGEL)  that will be running Windows XP or CE

 

 

Yeah Windows XP or CE only

 

CE?  CE???

 

Please, tell me more about this device you're going to run this on.  If you're gonna run something natively on CE, I'm guessing you'll have to dig into some old online app archives, 'cuz nothing's been developed on CE in years (at least nothing that's been released publicly).  I've written a few apps and utilities for CE, and I'd hate to go back to that.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0

I am looking for a free full screen count down timer program for windows.  I need it to countdown from 10 days showing days, hours, minutes, seconds.  This is just a one time deal we are looking at doing at work and I am mounting a 17" monitor in our breakroom just for this 1 time function.  

 

Anyone know where I can find one? I need it to be full screen. I will be removing the mouse/keyboard from the terminal once its running and counting down. 

 

This would take something like 2 minutes to make in VB.net...

 

Do you have any programming skills ?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0

Bigger question:  What happens when the countdown ends?

 

(Giving my best Jack Bauer impression)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0

Computer is Windows XP I just checked. 

 

We celebrate 1 year accident free at the company. 

 

I do not have ANY programming language. Thanks for the suggestion though.

 

 

Any other ideas?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 0

Just a random thing I found via Bing, claims to work on 2K thru 8.1. Free lightweight version and a nagware version with more features.  Tried it in a sandbox, seems to do what it claims.

http://www.xnotestopwatch.com/

 

Yeah, I ran across this earlier and downloaded and it seems to work fine. Not the best looking countdown timer in the world but it will have to do. Smeltn and I are going to have make it work for now. Hopefully we do not have any problems running it on the the thin-clients!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.