"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
news:sh4pv5d2gkqartphta7nmq52311beksat7@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 25 May 2010 22:57:57 -0400, "Volunteer J"
> wrote:
>
>> shank wrote:
>> > Does WinXp sync it's clock to some outside resource if it's available?
>> >
>> > I downloaded an atomic sync software. Found my clock to be about 5
>> > minutes off. Synced it and scheduled it to be synced every hour. It's
>> > now about 15 minutes later and it's off by 5 minutes again.
>> > Historically, evidently, it's always 5 minutes off which makes me
>> > believe it is syncing with something I'm not aware of. How do I
>> > troubleshoot this?
>> > thanks
>> =====================================
>> Maybe your CMOS battery needs to be replaced:
>
>
> No, almost certainly not, for two reasons:
>
> 1. It goes off by only five minutes.
>
> 2. 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 (which is apparently his case), 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 [ignore error message]
> w32tm /unregister
> w32tm /register
> net start w32time
>
>
>
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
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I did the above because it appeared to be the most plausible and set it to
Worldtimezone. But some 10 hours later, it reverted back to 6 minutes slow.
What I thought was 5 minutes above is actually 6 minutes. And it will stay 6
minutes off no matter what I do. How can I tell if there's some small app
that's dinging the wrong time somewhere and changing my clock? Add/Remove
programs doesn't show anything I'm not aware of.
thanks!