Vista clock runs slow by a few minutes everyday

G

Guest

When I had XP on my computer the time always was correct but immediately
since I upgrade to Vista Home Premium the clock loses a few minutes everyday.
Has anyone else have this issue? I have a new MB battery but I doubt that's
the culprit since it was working just fine up to the upgrade. Any ideas would
be greatly appreciated, thanks.
 
T

Tiberius

is the SERVICE running? control panel> administrative tools> services >
windows time (or something like that)

ALSO I have heard of a case of a FIREWALL blocking this!

Turn off the firewall and press the syncronize button.. see it it pops the
time to he correct time

I dont know what firewall you are using.. but you
can add the exception to connect to that site. I think its your firewall...

please post back what happens because this interests me.

thanks
 
G

Guest

I'll let you know I'm running NIS 2007 and not sure what to do on letting it
work with it if it is the culprit. But anytime I press to update the time it
does update so I'm alittle confused it's letting it do it anytime I manually
ask it to update.
 
G

Guest

I checked it is running and in automatic so I'll have to figure out the
firewall if that is what is causing it I doubt it since I can update it.
 
P

Peter

If it's anything like McAfee Firewall there are problems with it interfering
with Windows Time.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista Ultimate Triple Boot
P4 HT @ 3ghz, 4gb DDR, 700gb HDD
Soundblaster Audigy 4 PCI Sound
ATI Radeon X1650 Pro AGP Graphics
 
G

Guest

The question is where do I start to find the problem in NIS 2007. Any ideas I
really appreciate the help.
 
T

Tiberius

cant you just disable the norton firewall and turn on the vista one that is
compatible with windows time?

see if that fixes the problem.. if it does then its 100% the norton firewall

yet it is true that if you press the button and it works.. then something
else seems to be going on...

try doing what I said to get that out of the way...

One question, with what clock are you comparing? perhaps its fixing the
correct time and the time you are comparing it with is wrong.. lol
 
G

Guest

I'll try that and see what happens I'll keep you updated but it might be a
day or so to see if it works, thanks
 
T

Thomas

Well, both my desktop and laptop do this. These are both modern machines (both are less than a year old). The clock auto-update and firewall have NOTHING at all to do with this.

EVERY computer I've had in the last 10 to 12 years (or more) was able to keep the correct time no matter what operating system was installed... even DOS. Powered Off or On... I rarely, if ever, had to update my time. Over this time, I've had only one machine that needed a replacement battery.

Any Windows machine should be able to keep the correct time even with the auto update disabled. Actually, to be correct, Windows shouldn't have anything to do with this, but it does. It has to, as usual, screw with everything.

My machines lose anywhere from 5 to 40 minutes each day. We've been performing a variety of experiments on this exact problem. We tried each machine with updating on, updating off, and also with no internet access at all.

We've had access over the last 3 months to the following machines: an Intel P2-400MHz, a P3-550MHz, a P4-2.6GHz, three older AMD machines, a NEW Core 2 Duo notebook, an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600, and an AMD Athlon 64 3400(?) mobile.

Well, we couldn't get Vista installed on all of those. :)

The bottom line is that with 98, 98SE, 2000, or XP, NONE of these machines had any problem keeping the correct time. (for XP, we used SP2 in all cases except once. For that, we used the P4 machine and installed XP with no service packs).

With Windows ME and XP Media Center, we had issues with the auto-update working at all. And Media Center, out-of-the box, updates daily instead of weekly. Even so, neither slowly lost minutes each day.

With Vista (tried the "trial" HOME PREMIUM and ULTIMATE installs) installed -- starting with the P4-2.6GHz machine and up -- we had lost minutes on EVERY machine!

With VISTA, we lose minutes EVERY DAY!
With DOS through XP, we don't!



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H

Harry Strong

I have the same problem on Compaq Laptop. Lose up to 3 minutes everyday on
this new machine running Home Premium. Looked at battery replacement RTC at
around $50. That price seems crazy! I'll just uddate a couple of times a
day. Any ideas as to what is going on?

Thanks
 
A

Adam Albright

I have the same problem on Compaq Laptop. Lose up to 3 minutes everyday on
this new machine running Home Premium. Looked at battery replacement RTC at
around $50. That price seems crazy! I'll just uddate a couple of times a
day. Any ideas as to what is going on?

Thanks
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Seems to be a weird one. I've had it too. Note the word HAD. For over
a couple months I lost about two minutes a day also. Now going back a
couple weeks or so, clock seems fine, and I didn't change a thing,
same battery, same settings, etc.. Strange. I've seen the system clock
slow down before in XP, Windows 98, 95, etc., but after the system was
in use for years, so of course you'd expect the battery to weaken
some. This seems to be something different.
 
G

Guest

well i had this same problem on my brand new laptop... with nothing running
except avast antivirus and aim. i even exchanged it twice because toshiba
told me to... and yep, same problem on all of them. im guessing microsoft
forgot how to make the clock run correctly in their operating systems. i
cant even use timestamps on anything because it looks so stupid...

''random'' (3:11:25 PM) Hi
''me'' (3:06:33 PM) Hey
 
K

keepout

well i had this same problem on my brand new laptop... with nothing running
except avast antivirus and aim. i even exchanged it twice because toshiba
told me to... and yep, same problem on all of them. im guessing microsoft
forgot how to make the clock run correctly in their operating systems. i
cant even use timestamps on anything because it looks so stupid...

''random'' (3:11:25 PM) Hi
''me'' (3:06:33 PM) Hey
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You should still be talking to Toshiba, or returning for full refund and looking at another brand.
I went thru 5 HDTV's in 3 brands before I got one that worked more than 20 days.
I don't think QC means anything anymore except for some American companies, HP comes to mind.
 
J

Jason. A. Polzin

I am having this exact same problem on my computer as well. The problem does not occur when the computer is turned off, in DOS, or when I boot from an XP CD. I have also tried to start in safe mode and the problem still happens.

I have searched the microsoft knowledge base and have not found the solution. There is a a post 933272 that talks about losing time when the computer is rebooted but mine continues to lose time every day.

My only solution is to hack the registry to have the Internet Time update hourly!

If anyone has a solution please let us know!

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J

Jason Polzin

I am having this exact same problem on my computer as well. The problem does not occur when the computer is turned off, in DOS, or when I boot from an XP CD. I have also tried to start in safe mode and the problem still happens.

I have searched the microsoft knowledge base and have not found the solution. There is a a post 933272 that talks about losing time when the computer is rebooted but mine continues to lose time every day.

My only solution is to hack the registry to have the Internet Time update hourly!

EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
http://www.eggheadcafe.com
 
G

Guest

I'm having the same problem. Time worked perfectly under XP, but as soon as
I upgraded to Vista Home Premium, I started losing 3-7 minutes/day. I got
tired of going in and syncing the time everyday, so I've removed the clock
from the notification area and instead have a small travel clock sitting next
to my monitor. It's frustrating to pay all the money for the upgrade and now
the clock doesn't keep accurate time. All in all, I like Vista, but there
are a few little things throughout that don't work and this makes me crazy.
If anyone has since come up with a solution for the clock issue, please post
it.
 
G

Guest

Yes, i have the same question. My laptop is DELL 1501. It lost 2-3 minutes
per day on Vista Home premium, but clock works correctly on XP. I don't think
it have sth to do with firewall.
 

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