Tim Slattery wrote:
My wife told me that the clock was off by over an hour on her Win8.1
desktop. I brought up the clock setting window (click on the clock). I
set the time correctly, and clicked the box to make it sync with an
Internet time source (the domain name was already filled in).

Then I got a message saying that the Windows time service was not
running, and I should start it. Why in the world would this service
not be running? And how do I start it?


The service on my Windows 8.1, is set to manual start.
Which means either prompting from the dialog to update
the time, must be starting it. Or maybe something is in
Task Scheduler to kick it off every once in a while.

https://s32.postimg.org/dsiazzz0l/W32_Time.gif

The service has no dependencies.

There is supposed to be a troubleshooter for this, but
it's not in the Control Panel : Troubleshooter entry that
I could see.

And while I could find an article that claims some people
get permission errors, there was no resolution in that article
for a permission error problem.

That only leaves pages like this. And this doesn't appear
to be nearly enough. As it doesn't address debugging Firewall
settings.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...=ws.10%29.aspx

net stop w32time
w32tm /unregister
w32tm /register
net start w32time

Paul