computer clock

[Guest]

My computer clock gains 5 min every day. I have to manually synchronize it
daily. Any ideas why? Or what can be done to fix the annoyance. The
computer us 3 yrs old.

 

[Richard Urban]

Windows XP, as loaded, automatically updates the system time every 7 days
from one of two (default) time servers. This update interval can be changed
as follows:

Go to Start/Run. Type in regedit (the registry editor), then press enter.
Using regedit, press control/F (search). Type in "specialpollinterval"
without the quotes. Press enter.

When search has found the first entry, double click on the highlighted name.
Change the "base" to decimal. You will see that the decimal value is 604800,
the number of seconds in 7 days.

Edit this decimal value to any value you desire, remembering that there are
86400 seconds in one day, 3600 seconds in one hour. Click O.K.

Press F3 to find the next entry. Do this for each instance of the decimal
value "specialpollinterval".

Exit regedit.

Now reboot your system for the change to take effect.

Cheers!!!"


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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[S.Sengupta]

Start>Run and type in: cmd >OK
At the prompt, type in:

1. Start->Run cmd.exe
2. net stop w32time
3. w32tm /unregister
4. w32tm /unregister
5. w32tm /register
6. net start w32time

further ref:-
http://tf.nist.gov/service/time-servers.html

regards,
ssg MS-MVP

 

[Bob I]

You likely have a "fast" crystal on the motherboard. As a correction,
please go to Start, "Help and Support", Internet Time.