Time error

[Guest]

My system time is about five minutes out, so I tried updating the internet
time and the following error was shown: "An error occured while Windows was
syncronizing with time.windows.com." The time is still wrong, can anyone
help? Thanks.

 

[Larry Mauriello]

sometimes time drift can be a battery going bad. Afa the rror trying to sync
up w/Inet time. That sounds like a spyware or AntiVrius prog. blocking your
update. Check those out and see what happens. Good luck...

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

sometimes time drift can be a battery going bad.

No, this is at best very misleading.

Before anyone whose clock is running slow rushes out to buy a new battery,
he should first take note of whether he is losing time while the computer is
running or while it's powered off. If it's while powered off, the problem
*is* very likely the battery. But if it's while running, it can *not* be the
battery, because the battery isn't used while the computer is running.

Afa the rror trying
to sync up w/Inet time. That sounds like a spyware or AntiVrius prog.
blocking your update. Check those out and see what happens. Good
luck...

Highly unlikely. The first thing to try is simply switching to another time
server.