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ElmüSoft Desktop Organizer (PTBSync)

Latest Version: 6.7g   (6.aug.2024)

Event Organizer, Desktop Calendar, Trayclock and Atomic clock synchronization

Organizer / Scheduler

  • The event calendar stores birthdays and other events which you will never again forget:
  • Multiple hints before an event and reminders afterwards :
  • Repetition interval at special days of week possible.
  • Automatic calculation of the age at birthdays / anniversaries.
  • A sound may be played with an alarm.
  • Scheduler / Alarm Clock: Starting a program, opening a file or shutdown Windows at a certain time.
  • Programmatically turn on the computer and boot Windows (wake up from Hibernate / StandBy)
  • Egg Timer that remembers you at short time events (Pizza in the stove).
  • Automatic calculation of the Holidays of 70 countries for any year (also of the past and in the future). ( Screenshot )
  • Creation of a HTML calendar for printing. (Example see Here)
  • Calendar calculator for Islamic, jewish, Iran and coptic Calendars, Moon Calendar. ( Screenshot )
  • Coloured display of different types of holidays (red / magenta):

  • iCalendar event import
  • Events can be saved to an HTML file.

Desktop Calendar

  • Display of date, events, holidays, moon, etc. anywhere on the desktop:
  • World clock:
  • Analog Flash Desktop Clock with several themes:
  • Display of moon phase, sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, twilight with detailed tooltip:
  • Display of details about the computer:
  • Intelligent menstruation calendar which predicts based on your last period dates:
       
  • Analog clock, date display and mini calendar with tooltip for March,17th on the desktop
  • Display of actual weather and forecast for any GPS location in the world on the desktop

    You can separately turn on and off: the actual weather, the daily forecast for day and night, the hourly forecast, the weather station and how many columns to be displayed. A tooltip shows further details.
  • Display of Google Gadgets on the Desktop ( Screenshot )
  • Continuously adjustable transparency for all desktop elements.
  • 100% user configurable: all colors, fonts, images, transparency etc..
  • Supports up to 15 monitors.
  • PTBSync can save and restore the positions of the desktop icons (for each screen resolution separately)
  • PTBSync creates a user configurable HTML calendar, which you can upload to a server or print on paper. See Example.

Atomic Clock Synchronization

  • Show Configuration window
  • Date and time are fetched from an Atomic clock (photo) via the internet.
  • Adjusting the clock invisible in the background or with a hint:
  • Adjusts the PC clock with an accuracy of 1/50 second.
  • 156 Time servers (NTP) worldwide selectable from a list.
  • Time synchronization via Port 80 (HTTP) possible, also through Proxy server
  • Highly precise Windows clock by drift compensation
  • Analysis of clock deviations by detailed observation of the Windows clock.
  • When the PTBSync service is running, the clock is also adjusted in the background if no user is logged on.
  • Additional display of the international UTC time.
  • The deviation when adjusting the clock can be written to a logfile.

Trayclock

  • Replacement for the Windows Trayclock.
  • The taskbar clock may display the time with seconds and the date and weekday.
  • Completely customizable.
  • Tooltip with the detailed date.
  • Weekday display in all languages (Unicode support).
  • The taskbar can be switched to transparent mode.
  • Display of Islam, Jewish, Iran, Coptic Calendar.
  • Display of Julian date. (for astronomers)
  • Display of Moon state.
     

Desktop Notes

  • Any HTML Note can be placed on the Desktop.
  • Each note can be opened / closed via left click
  • Each note can be edited via right click
  • In a note you can place tables, images and links to webpages or local files.
  • 100% user configurable (colors, fonts, transparency etc.)

Stopwatch

  • You can run as many stopwatches at once as you like.
  • Precision 1/100th second.

Tested 2023



Tested 2022



Tested 2011



Tested 2011



Tested 2011



Tested 2011



Tested 2008


5 stars, 2009



Tested 2006



With 15 screenshots 2009



Published in magazine
January 2003 under Top 10


User ranking: very good



Editor's Pick


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Download latest PTBSync Version

AVAST is so stupid that it blocks PTBSync without showing you any warning.
It forbids PTBSync to write into the folder "My Documents".
You must explicitely unblock PTBSync in the configuration of AVAST, or better uninstall this crap software.

New in Version 6.7g:
Adapted to Microsoft's changes in Windows 11 version 24H2 where a black trayclock appeared.

New in Version 6.7f:
Bugfix: If more than 9 desktop notes were used, data corruption was possible.

New in Version 6.7e:
The trayclock has been adapted to badly programmed third party software for Windows 11.
When this software was installed the trayclock did not start or showed completely black.
ProgramVersionDateSize
 PTBSync Desktop Organizer6.7g6.aug.20243.6 MB
PTBSync Desktop Planer6.7g6.Aug.20243.6 MB
 
 Download   Holiday Update 
Download the latest version of PTBSync Holiday files. (weekly updated) 		 
 Download   Additional Holiday extensions and images 
On the homepage of Wilfried Dewaelheyns you can download lots of calendar systems for PTBSync like: European holidays, International holidays, Namedays, Special days for Belgium, USA, France, Germany, Japan,... Calendars translated to french, greek, portugues,... Astronomical and astrological calendars, Mixed topics like buddhistic, coptic, celtic,... Birthdays from celibrities and movie characters,...

Please read the description there how to integrate them into PTBSync.
Additionally you find a collection of images for PTBSync.

 

Recommended for Windows 10, 11: Adobe Flash Player
If you like the PTBSync Flash clocks you need the Adobe Flash Player.
But sadly it is no longer possible to install Adobe Flash on Windows 10 or Windows 11.

If you want to display the PTBSync Flash clocks on your desktop, ElmüSoft offers an individual solution for you:

 
 Download   Manual Adobe Flash Installer   (25 MB)  

Recommended for Windows 11: Explorer Patcher
In Windows 11 Microsoft has crippled the taskbar.
The quickstart icon area has been removed.
The taskbar cannot be displayed vertically anymore.
 
Valentin-Gabriel Radu has found that the Windows 10 taskbar still exists hidden in the Windows 11 Explorer.
After installing Explorer Patcher, right click the taskbar, in the menu select 'Properties'.
Then switch to the Windows 10 taskbar and click 'Restart File Explorer'.
 
This project is also based on reverese engineering of Windows Explorer.
PTBSync has been tested to cooperate with this software. 		 
 Download  Explorer Patcher (ep_setup.exe)   (1,7 MB)  

Recommended for Windows 7, 8, 10, 11: Classic Shell
After the era of Windows XP Microsoft has continuously deteriorated the startmenu.
If you want a user configurable startmenu back, install Classic Shell from Ivo Beltchev.
 
It has a ton of features for the startmenu and the taskbar:
  • Highly customizable start menu with sub-menus and multiple styles and skins
  • Quick access to recent, frequently-used, or pinned programs
  • Find programs, settings, files and documents
  • Start button in the Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and custom style
  • Toolbar and status bar for Windows Explorer
This project is also based on reverese engineering of Windows Explorer.
PTBSync has been tested to cooperate with this software. 		 
 Download  Classic Shell   (7 MB)  

Download old PTBSync Versions

The last version that was running on Windows 2000 was PTBSync 5.8
ProgramVersionDateSize
 PTBSync Desktop Organizer W2k5.830.jan.20143.6 MB
PTBSync Desktop Planer W2k5.830.Jan.20143.6 MB
The last version that was running on Windows 95, NT, 98, ME was PTBSync 4.8b
ProgramVersionDateSize
 PTBSync Desktop Organizer W9x4.8b20.mar.20091.4 MB
PTBSync Desktop Planer W9x4.8b20.Mrz.20091.4 MB

PTBSync Version History

PTBSync was the first program that I published on my homepage.
The development started in 1999 on Visual Studio 6.
In times of Windows 95 the computer clock of my Pentium 300 was permanently showing the wrong time.
The first PTBSync version synchronized the computer clock with the atomic clock of the PTB
(Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt) in Braunschweig, Germany, therefore the name PTB Sync
It automatically detected when a modem connection to the internet was available and fetched the time.


My program brought me much feedback from users who asked for more features.
In the following years PTBSync was growing and growing. I spent decades of my life with the development.
PTBSync won many awards on software websites and in computer magazines. In PC-Welt it was ranked under the TOP 10.
A scheduler was added, the primitive Windows trayclock was completely replaced and a desktop calendar was added.
Wilfried Dewaelheyns added the calculations of holidays and special days for 70 countries.


In all these years since 1999 Microsoft has released many new Windows versions: 95, NT, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11.
With every new version Microsoft screwed up my program. Programming that before was OK, suddenly was declared as obsolete.
64 bit came out, multi-monitor support was added, process elevation was introduced and the user could switch the monitor scaling factor.
All these changes required adapting PTBSync.
Until today Microsoft is making changes resulting that PTBSync does not work anymore after a Windows Update.
All these Microsoft Updates forced me to release hundred PTBSync versions that adapt to Microsoft's permanent changes.
This continues until today.
 
The version history is very long.
You can open it Here

 
 
 

Software  from  ElmüSoft

Desktop Organizer & Event Calendar
My program PTBSync (in english + deutsch) has an event calendar / scheduler with lots of features, calculates the holidays of 70 countries, can display multiple gadgets on the desktop (current weather, birthdays, moon phase, menstruation calendar, world clocks,...) pins notes on the desktop, replaces the primitive Windows trayclock and adds a detailed tooltip, synchronizes with an atomic clock, and much more.
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Subtitle Tuner
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Secure Doorlock with RFID Cards
is a project with an RFID antenna and a Teensy processor that opens a door with Mifare Desfire cards. The RFID cards of up to 64 users can be stored in the flash memory. It is extremely secure because it uses strong encryption. A big battery assures that the door can be opened during a power failure.
Remote Control your Computer with Infrared
An infrared receiver and a Teensy processor allow to remote control the music player on your computer with any old remote control that you have from a TV, amplifier, DVD player, SAT tuner or whatever. The Teensy simulates a keyboard and sends keystrokes to the music player.
3D Render and Editor Control in C#
A .NET control that can be easily implemented into System.Windows.Forms applications to display 3D graphs. The user can move and rotate the graph with the mouse and edit single points. Many display modes are available: 3D surface, 3D shapes, 3D lines, 3D objects, also animated 3D objects.
USB HID Touchscreen
A Teensy processor emulates keyboard, mouse and touchscreen at the same time to remote control a computer for automation purposes.
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