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CPTrader

Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 1562

02-08-12 12:03 AM

Hello,

How can I set up my laptop to automatically sync itself periodiclaly intra-day to the atomic clock.

My computer seems to always be 1-2 minutes slow or fast which affects scheduiled takss.

Thanks!

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dom993

Registered: Jul 2008
Posts: 534

02-08-12 12:12 AM

I use Dimension4 from Thinking Man Software. It is free and does just what you want.

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Kevin Schmit

Registered: Nov 2005
Posts: 567

02-08-12 12:36 AM

Quote from CPTrader:

Hello,

How can I set up my laptop to automatically sync itself periodiclaly intra-day to the atomic clock.

My computer seems to always be 1-2 minutes slow or fast which affects scheduiled takss.

Thanks!

Assuming you are running Windows 7, first check that the "Windows Time" service is running. If it isn't, start it.

To increase the sync frequency, start regedt32.exe

Go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Config

and change the "UpdateInterval" key to a smaller value. Try 20,000 instead of the default of 360,000

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CPTrader

Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 1562

02-08-12 12:40 AM

Quote from Kevin Schmit:

Assuming you are running Windows 7, first check that the "Windows Time" service is running. If it isn't, start it.

To increase the sync frequency, start regedt32.exe

Go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Config

and change the "UpdateInterval" key to a smaller value. Try 20,000 instead of the default of 360,000

How do I check to see that Windows Time service is running? Thanks!

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CPTrader

Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 1562

02-08-12 01:00 AM

I was able to change the time interval, but there seems to be no change. My time is still wrong.

I also noticed that if I manualy click on my Windows clokc and try an dmnaually upate the time by synching to time.nist.gov I get a error message: "An error occurred while Windows was synchronizing with time.nist.gov"

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Kevin Schmit

Registered: Nov 2005
Posts: 567

02-08-12 01:53 AM

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How do I check to see that Windows Time service is running? Thanks!

In the Task Manager, in the "Services" tab. You can start the task manager by typing cmtrl-alt-delete

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