Computer clock is slow

Jyeshta wrote:

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:03:48 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

Windows does it automatically once a week. There are also several
third-party programs you can use that give you more clock options,
like synching it more often. I like TClock (not the similarly named,
but inferior, in my view, Tclockex).

Hi, Ken. I Googled TClock and apparently it speaks the time, which I
wouldn't want.

Nope. It may be an option, I don't know, but I don't have it speaking here.



How much time does the clock lose? 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.

If the clock loses time while running, try this:

Open a command prompt window (Start | Run | cmd) and enter the
following commands:

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

I got the time service turned back on, but those 2 commands in the
middle were invalid.


They are not invalid. If they didn't work when you tried to run
them, it's because you have a problem with your path, which for some
reason isn't set correctly on your computer. You can always run them
by explicitly including the path to them as part of the command:

C:\windows\system32\w32tm /unregister
C:\windows\system32\w32tm /register

Oy. OK, but I think I might just give up. Thanks again for all your
help, very much.


You're welcome. Glad to help.

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On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:17:26 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

Jyeshta wrote:

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:03:48 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

Windows does it automatically once a week. There are also several
third-party programs you can use that give you more clock options,
like synching it more often. I like TClock (not the similarly named,
but inferior, in my view, Tclockex).

Hi, Ken. I Googled TClock and apparently it speaks the time, which I
wouldn't want.

Hi, Ken. Do you have a link for it? My Googling only turned up a
version that speaks the time and may not be suitable for XP, so I
think there may be more than one TClock. If you'd rather not bother,
it's fine with me. You have already taken so much time and trouble
with me, and I thank you so much.

Nope. It may be an option, I don't know, but I don't have it speaking here.



How much time does the clock lose? 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.

If the clock loses time while running, try this:

Open a command prompt window (Start | Run | cmd) and enter the
following commands:

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

I got the time service turned back on, but those 2 commands in the
middle were invalid.


They are not invalid. If they didn't work when you tried to run
them, it's because you have a problem with your path, which for some
reason isn't set correctly on your computer. You can always run them
by explicitly including the path to them as part of the command:

C:\windows\system32\w32tm /unregister
C:\windows\system32\w32tm /register

Oy. OK, but I think I might just give up. Thanks again for all your
help, very much.


You're welcome. Glad to help.

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:28:39 -0400, lid wrote:

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:02:59 -0500, Jyeshta wrote:

Dell did send someone out who replaced the CMOS battery yesterday.
But my clock is a minute slow. How can I synch my clock to an atomic
clock on the internet?

in your registry edit these links

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servi ces\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\ W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Services\ W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient

This is primarily for my info. I keep an online email hint file of XP hints.
Someone in this group ages ago, posted a method to get XP to update more than
once a week.

Their method was to modify the top registry entry. For some reason it always
failed for me, and another poster to the message.

I went back at it yesterday, and accidentally set it to update every 60 seconds
vs every 3600 seconds [hour]. By changing all three registry entries in
SpecialPollInterval to 60 it took and checked time every minute. And no
failures this time. I can only assume all three registry entries needed changed
instead of just the one.

It would make sense since changing the top one also changes the 3rd one. But
the 2nd one remains the same.

There might also be 3 registry entries because I have 3 sources to synch with.

Anyway's it always works now.. And I want a record of the hint for my records.

Thanks, keepout, but I am not touching the registry.

Gail

Jyeshta wrote:
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:17:26 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

Jyeshta wrote:

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:03:48 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

Windows does it automatically once a week. There are also several
third-party programs you can use that give you more clock options,
like synching it more often. I like TClock (not the similarly
named, but inferior, in my view, Tclockex).

Hi, Ken. I Googled TClock and apparently it speaks the time, which
I wouldn't want.

Hi, Ken. Do you have a link for it? My Googling only turned up a
version that speaks the time and may not be suitable for XP, so I
think there may be more than one TClock. If you'd rather not bother,
it's fine with me. You have already taken so much time and trouble
with me, and I thank you so much.


You're welcome again. I just googled TClock, and the first hit was the right
one: http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclock/

--
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Nope. It may be an option, I don't know, but I don't have it
speaking here.



How much time does the clock lose? 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.

If the clock loses time while running, try this:

Open a command prompt window (Start | Run | cmd) and enter the
following commands:

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

I got the time service turned back on, but those 2 commands in the
middle were invalid.


They are not invalid. If they didn't work when you tried to run
them, it's because you have a problem with your path, which for
some reason isn't set correctly on your computer. You can always
run them by explicitly including the path to them as part of the
command:

C:\windows\system32\w32tm /unregister
C:\windows\system32\w32tm /register

Oy. OK, but I think I might just give up. Thanks again for all
your help, very much.


You're welcome. Glad to help.

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:17:51 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

Jyeshta wrote:
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:17:26 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

Jyeshta wrote:

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:03:48 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

Windows does it automatically once a week. There are also several
third-party programs you can use that give you more clock options,
like synching it more often. I like TClock (not the similarly
named, but inferior, in my view, Tclockex).

Hi, Ken. I Googled TClock and apparently it speaks the time, which
I wouldn't want.

Hi, Ken. Do you have a link for it? My Googling only turned up a
version that speaks the time and may not be suitable for XP, so I
think there may be more than one TClock. If you'd rather not bother,
it's fine with me. You have already taken so much time and trouble
with me, and I thank you so much.


You're welcome again. I just googled TClock, and the first hit was the right
one: http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclock/

Thank you again, Ken. Oh boy, I feel as though I should send you a
cake or something. :-)

Gail

Jyeshta wrote:

You're welcome again. I just googled TClock, and the first hit was
the right one: http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclock/

Thank you again, Ken. Oh boy, I feel as though I should send you a
cake or something. :-)



You're welcome. Cakes aren't necessary. ;-)


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On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:55:45 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

Jyeshta wrote:

You're welcome again. I just googled TClock, and the first hit was
the right one: http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclock/

Thank you again, Ken. Oh boy, I feel as though I should send you a
cake or something. :-)



You're welcome. Cakes aren't necessary. ;-)

You are too kind! But Ken, I installed TClock and right clicked on
Synchronize, yet my clock is still running two minutes slow. What am
I doing wrong? I'm using the Cable Box as the correct timer here.
Thank you!!!!!

Gail

Jyeshta wrote:
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:55:45 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

Jyeshta wrote:

You're welcome again. I just googled TClock, and the first hit was
the right one: http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclock/

Thank you again, Ken. Oh boy, I feel as though I should send you a
cake or something. :-)



You're welcome. Cakes aren't necessary. ;-)

You are too kind! But Ken, I installed TClock and right clicked on
Synchronize, yet my clock is still running two minutes slow. What am
I doing wrong? I'm using the Cable Box as the correct timer here.
Thank you!!!!!


Right-click and choose Properties and go the Synchronize tab. You can set
the frequency of synchronizing there. Also set the server. I use
time.nist.gov. Once you've set a server, then synchronize should work.


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On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:32:21 -0500, Jyeshta
wrote:

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:55:45 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

Jyeshta wrote:

You're welcome again. I just googled TClock, and the first hit was
the right one: http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclock/

Thank you again, Ken. Oh boy, I feel as though I should send you a
cake or something. :-)



You're welcome. Cakes aren't necessary. ;-)

You are too kind! But Ken, I installed TClock and right clicked on
Synchronize, yet my clock is still running two minutes slow. What am
I doing wrong? I'm using the Cable Box as the correct timer here.
Thank you!!!!!

Gail

Nevermind! I just figured it out - I double clicked the clock and the
last tab had a thing for adjusting the time and it's correct now!
Whoopee! Thank you, Ken!

Gail

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:41:02 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

Jyeshta wrote:
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:55:45 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

Jyeshta wrote:

You're welcome again. I just googled TClock, and the first hit was
the right one: http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclock/

Thank you again, Ken. Oh boy, I feel as though I should send you a
cake or something. :-)



You're welcome. Cakes aren't necessary. ;-)

You are too kind! But Ken, I installed TClock and right clicked on
Synchronize, yet my clock is still running two minutes slow. What am
I doing wrong? I'm using the Cable Box as the correct timer here.
Thank you!!!!!


Right-click and choose Properties and go the Synchronize tab. You can set
the frequency of synchronizing there. Also set the server. I use
time.nist.gov. Once you've set a server, then synchronize should work.

Thank you, Ken!!! It is sorted now!

Gail

Jyeshta wrote:

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:41:02 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"

wrote:
Right-click and choose Properties and go the Synchronize tab. You
can set the frequency of synchronizing there. Also set the server. I
use time.nist.gov. Once you've set a server, then synchronize should
work.

Thank you, Ken!!! It is sorted now!


Great, and you're welcome again.


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Hi Ken,

I was having the same problem with my clock by it being slow as the compter
was running...I looked at the actual second hand and it was definitely not
moving like it should. By doing your command promt instructions it seems to
be working fine now.

In another issue my PC card slot seems to have stopped working. It had been
fine until Friday of last week. When I put the Linksys card in I am not even
getting the power light to come on, nor am I getting the little icon in the
system tray to signify that the computer is recognizing the card.
--
KingCadillac


"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

Jyeshta wrote:

On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 13:01:42 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

Jyeshta wrote:

This is a new computer so I can't believe the battery needs
replacing.


It's not terribly likely, but even new batteries can be bad. I
wouldn't necessarily rule that possibility out.

How much time does the clock lose? 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.

If the clock loses time while running, try this:

Open a command prompt window (Start | Run | cmd) and enter the
following commands:

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



Is there any sort of atomic clock on the internet to which I can
connect my computer?


Yes, there are many, and Windows automatically synchs to one once a
week. You can change the interval to do it more frequently, or you
can use one of the third-party clock programs, like the freeware
TClock, which does this and several other useful things.

Thank you so much, Ken. I think the clock is losing time while turned
off because the problem has only begun since I had it turned off two
nights last week. Is there any danger in not replacing the battery?


You're welcome. If the clock is losing time while turned off, just replace
the battery. It's cheap and easy.

If you don't, sooner of later you'll lose all the CMOS settings.

By the way you usually have at last 15 minutes to replace the battery before
losing the settings, but it's prudent to have a hard copy of what they are
before beginning, just in case you have to put them back manually.


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