My computer started up with the correct time this morning. Thanks for the
heads ups about the battery guys. This is the first CMOS battery I've ever
had fail--and we've had a boatload of computers. Now it makes my wonder
what kind of batteries our other two Gateways have--those machines are at
least two years older than this one. I will have to check them out.

"Annie Woughman" wrote in message
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On my Vista, now Win7 desktop I have had an ongoing problem with it
failing to keep the correct time. This happens at night when the machine
is turned off. In the morning I have to manually sync the machine with
internet time. When it was still a Vista machine I found a registry fix
that would have it automatically sync every four hours. Now since the
change to Win7, I find that this registry change is never "saved." It is
most annoying because this machine has a television tuner so I use it
regularly to record shows through the Media Center. That doesn't work so
very well if I forget to sync the machine in the morning and the show I
want recorded starts at 9:00 p.m. and my machine still thinks it is 11:00
a.m.

Also, why is it just my desktop that does this and not either of my two
laptops? They are turned off 75% of the time but they always start up
with the correct time.

Does anyone know of a way to fix this, or an app that would make it
automatically do a time sync upon startup?