Set date

[Guest]

I have an old Fujitsu notebook that the motherboard battery keeps
dischargeing in 2 or 3 days after replacement, it is also hard to replace,
and I have loaded XP Home on this notebook which if the date is not set
correctly will take approximately 10 min. to boot. So my question is: is
there a way to set the date before XP starts to boot , { as in with Win98
putting the date command in the autoexec.bat file }. I know that it can be
set in the bios, but this has to be simple as the person who uses this
notebook is not very technical.

Thanks Tommy

 

[Guest]

After reading your post, my concern is NOT with the problem about the
current date or creating a batch file for the date, which can not be done
for your clock is not running, and the time and date would be incorrect.
My concern is, why is the CMOS battery discharging after only 2 or 3 days.
You may have a short or something else, like dust or dirt in the case.
I'd have that checked out first, and then you would not have a need for a
date batch file.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have an old Fujitsu notebook that the motherboard battery keeps
dischargeing in 2 or 3 days after replacement, it is also hard to replace,
and I have loaded XP Home on this notebook which if the date is not set
correctly will take approximately 10 min. to boot. So my question is: is
there a way to set the date before XP starts to boot , { as in with Win98
putting the date command in the autoexec.bat file }. I know that it can be
set in the bios, but this has to be simple as the person who uses this
notebook is not very technical.

Thanks Tommy

How do you propose to set the date without user input?

You can, of course, force a fixed date & time but one wonders
why you would bother. Place a batch file (e.g. SetDate.bat)
into the Startup subfolder of the All Users profile folder and
put these lines into it:

@echo off
date 05/24/2006
time 09:00

 

[Squire]

Is the battery in right side up?

You can also set the date by typing CMD on the Start-Run line.
Then typing DATE to set the date.

 

[paulmd]

I have an old Fujitsu notebook that the motherboard battery keeps
dischargeing in 2 or 3 days after replacement, it is also hard to replace,
and I have loaded XP Home on this notebook which if the date is not set
correctly will take approximately 10 min. to boot. So my question is: is
there a way to set the date before XP starts to boot , { as in with Win98
putting the date command in the autoexec.bat file }. I know that it can be
set in the bios, but this has to be simple as the person who uses this
notebook is not very technical.

Thanks Tommy

Try entering in the BIOS.