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why is windows clock wrong

Anonymous
2023-12-21T17:38:00+00:00

Laptop clock is wrong and syncronizing to time.windows.com or any other internet time source doesn't matter. None of the online recommendations to fix it have worked. My laptop does not have a cmos battery to replace. I can sync manually, but an 2 hours later the time is lagging by 45 min.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-12-21T21:19:02+00:00

    Hello , sorry about your problems. My name is Marco and I will do my best to help you.

    You can restart Windows Time Service. You can do this by opening the Run command box (Windows + R), typing "services.msc", locating the Windows Time service, and clicking Restart.

    And, you can use the command prompt to re-register the Time Service and then resync time.

    Open Windows start menu and type: cmd

    Right-click on command prompt and run as admin.

    Enter this commands, by pressing ENTER between each line.

    net stop w32time

    w32tm /unregister

    w32tm /register

    net start w32time

    w32tm /resync /nowait

    After executing these commands, check if the time on your device is syncing.

    Disable Firewall and Third-Party Antivirus: Sometimes, your firewall or antivirus software can interfere with your clock or other programs, causing various errors including time synchronization issues. Try disabling your firewall or antivirus software temporarily to see if this resolves the issue.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-12-30T16:10:26+00:00

    Those steps reset the clock but don't cause the time setting in the BIOS Configuration Utility to maintain the correct time after it has been set. I took the laptop to Microcenter and the tech spent 30 min using various approaches trying to figure it out but couldn't. Without doing an even deeper dive he surmised that there could be a problem somewhere on the motherboard. That could be expensive. Manually syncing to time.windows.com or time.nist.gov works initially but starts to lose time up to 45 min per day. I will just keep manually syncing until something more severe happens, or I decide to buy another laptop just to be done with it.

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