PC Time

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It seems I'm always having to update my PC time, it keeps gaining time. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks, Mary
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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
How old is your Motherboard? IT could be that your battery is failing and not allowign the clock to keep accurate time.

Does it lose time while powered on or only after you have shut down?
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
While I'm still online. I leave it on for days at a time without any problems. The whole set up is about 3 yrs. old.

u have to update bios probably


How do I do that?
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
How do I do that?

This is one of those things where I'd say if you have to ask you probably shouldn't attempt it. Your Bios is basically what lets your software control your computer (hardware).....
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'd consider changing your CMOS battery, it might be dying.

If its losing while its on... I'd check to see if your PC clock is syncing to any atomic clocks.  Check in Date/Time properties in Control Panel.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Check in Date/Time properties in Control Panel.


If on, it'll sync once a week.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It's on and set to sync once a week. Would Norton GoBack have anything to do with it? I remember a popup once asking if my pc time was correct. At that time I thought it was, but must not have been. I can't find where or how to configure GoBack time. I don't know if the problems lies there or not.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
There are also programs like AboutTime that will set your time for you as often as you like. You can set it to run on reboot, or you can set it up as a windows task to run every now and then and autoclose after it sets the time, or you can just leave it running all the time if you need the time to be really accurate.

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have Comodo firewall and I was wondering if maybe that was blocking the synchronization of the clock. How do I unblock network time protocol if that is the problem?
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
You should have an exceptions list in your firewall that allows various programs you choose to access the internet unhindered.
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I don't know what it's called for the internet time. What would I look for?
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It is actually a dll run as a service w32time.dll
I'm not sure how to tell your firewall to allow a dll...
There is a diagnostic program for it w32tm.exe that can be run from a command prompt, but I'm not exactly sure how to use it to help you yet...

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Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
just curious, in the time sync dialog what servers are listed in the drop down?
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Allow: time.windows.com - 207.46.130.100  

Start/ Run: W32tm /register. Registers the time service to run as a service and adds default configuration to the registry.   
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
wow!!

he must have some kind of bot that scans the forums looking for new instances of his name...
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thank you everyone for your help. Seems to be fine now.
Appreciated.