Clock Speed Slows Down

I have recently (Feb08) got a Toshiba Laptop Satellite Pro M200 with MS Vista
Business 6.0.6000 OS. Offlate I have realized the clock on the Task Bar slows
down by a min every 2 days approximately.

Is there a way to improve the clock speed. I am anyway setting the clock
every 10 days on my system.

thanks
Nav

Hi,

A slow clock while running is nearly always due to interference from another
bit of software. This usually turns out to be your antivirus solution, with
Symantec products being the biggest offender. Solutions? Either get used to
synching your clock more often, or find a different antivirus product. You
can confirm this by simply running with your av product disabled for a few
days.

In case you hear that it may be the CMOS battery, that would not be the
cause of a clock losing time while running. A dead or dying battery would
cause the system to lose track of the time while shut down and revert back
to a default setting each time it's booted. Once Windows is loaded and
running, control of the clock is not dependent on the system BIOS.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Nav" <> wrote in message
news:383D718B-5345-4C82-B415-...
>I have recently (Feb08) got a Toshiba Laptop Satellite Pro M200 with MS
>Vista
> Business 6.0.6000 OS. Offlate I have realized the clock on the Task Bar
> slows
> down by a min every 2 days approximately.
>
> Is there a way to improve the clock speed. I am anyway setting the clock
> every 10 days on my system.
>
> thanks
> Nav

windows can sync with internet clocks, make sure the service is running and
the time servers not bieing blocked by firewall



"Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
news:%23$...
> Hi,
>
> A slow clock while running is nearly always due to interference from
> another bit of software. This usually turns out to be your antivirus
> solution, with Symantec products being the biggest offender. Solutions?
> Either get used to synching your clock more often, or find a different
> antivirus product. You can confirm this by simply running with your av
> product disabled for a few days.
>
> In case you hear that it may be the CMOS battery, that would not be the
> cause of a clock losing time while running. A dead or dying battery would
> cause the system to lose track of the time while shut down and revert back
> to a default setting each time it's booted. Once Windows is loaded and
> running, control of the clock is not dependent on the system BIOS.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Nav" <> wrote in message
> news:383D718B-5345-4C82-B415-...
>>I have recently (Feb08) got a Toshiba Laptop Satellite Pro M200 with MS
>>Vista
>> Business 6.0.6000 OS. Offlate I have realized the clock on the Task Bar
>> slows
>> down by a min every 2 days approximately.
>>
>> Is there a way to improve the clock speed. I am anyway setting the clock
>> every 10 days on my system.
>>
>> thanks
>> Nav
>

Nav;643867 Wrote:
> I have recently (Feb08) got a Toshiba Laptop Satellite Pro M200 with MS
> Vista
> Business 6.0.6000 OS. Offlate I have realized the clock on the Task Bar
> slows
> down by a min every 2 days approximately.
>
> Is there a way to improve the clock speed. I am anyway setting the
> clock
> every 10 days on my system.
>
> thanks
> Nav

Hi Nav,

See if this may be able to help you.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/89...-interval.html

Shawn


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Thanks there to you all.
There is a problem in internet time synchronization. When I open the clock
-> third tab 'Internet Time' -> Check the synchro. box -> time.windows.com ->
click update now ---->>>>
the message that gets displayed is:
"An error occured while windows was synchronizing with time.windows.com. The
peer is unresolved"

However, I have already made the changes for 1 day (86400) in regedit.

Thanks again. If you know how to resolve, please do reply.

"Brink" wrote:

>
> Nav;643867 Wrote:
> > I have recently (Feb08) got a Toshiba Laptop Satellite Pro M200 with MS
> > Vista
> > Business 6.0.6000 OS. Offlate I have realized the clock on the Task Bar
> > slows
> > down by a min every 2 days approximately.
> >
> > Is there a way to improve the clock speed. I am anyway setting the
> > clock
> > every 10 days on my system.
> >
> > thanks
> > Nav
>
> Hi Nav,
>
> See if this may be able to help you.
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/89...-interval.html
>
> Shawn
>
>
> --
> Brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
> '*Vista x64 Forums*'
> (http://www.vistax64.com/index.php?referrerid=2980)
> *Please post feedback to help others.*
>

How do we make sure that time servers are not blocked by firewall. Sorry for
being so low on system knowledge. Really appreciate your help.
thanks

"bamboozle" wrote:

> windows can sync with internet clocks, make sure the service is running and
> the time servers not bieing blocked by firewall
>
>
>
> "Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
> news:%23$...
> > Hi,
> >
> > A slow clock while running is nearly always due to interference from
> > another bit of software. This usually turns out to be your antivirus
> > solution, with Symantec products being the biggest offender. Solutions?
> > Either get used to synching your clock more often, or find a different
> > antivirus product. You can confirm this by simply running with your av
> > product disabled for a few days.
> >
> > In case you hear that it may be the CMOS battery, that would not be the
> > cause of a clock losing time while running. A dead or dying battery would
> > cause the system to lose track of the time while shut down and revert back
> > to a default setting each time it's booted. Once Windows is loaded and
> > running, control of the clock is not dependent on the system BIOS.
> >
> > --
> > Best of Luck,
> >
> > Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> > Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> > My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
> >
> > "Nav" <> wrote in message
> > news:383D718B-5345-4C82-B415-...
> >>I have recently (Feb08) got a Toshiba Laptop Satellite Pro M200 with MS
> >>Vista
> >> Business 6.0.6000 OS. Offlate I have realized the clock on the Task Bar
> >> slows
> >> down by a min every 2 days approximately.
> >>
> >> Is there a way to improve the clock speed. I am anyway setting the clock
> >> every 10 days on my system.
> >>
> >> thanks
> >> Nav
> >
>
>
>

turn off the firewall you have and try pressing the button to see if it
works.

if it does it means its your firewall

then go to the site or help file of your firewall and learn how to add
"exceptions" so that it wont be blocked



"Nav" <> wrote in message
news:C9B89E07-A684-44B7-B6DD-...
> Thanks there to you all.
> There is a problem in internet time synchronization. When I open the clock
> -> third tab 'Internet Time' -> Check the synchro. box ->
> time.windows.com ->
> click update now ---->>>>
> the message that gets displayed is:
> "An error occured while windows was synchronizing with time.windows.com.
> The
> peer is unresolved"
>
> However, I have already made the changes for 1 day (86400) in regedit.
>
> Thanks again. If you know how to resolve, please do reply.
>
> "Brink" wrote:
>
>>
>> Nav;643867 Wrote:
>> > I have recently (Feb08) got a Toshiba Laptop Satellite Pro M200 with MS
>> > Vista
>> > Business 6.0.6000 OS. Offlate I have realized the clock on the Task Bar
>> > slows
>> > down by a min every 2 days approximately.
>> >
>> > Is there a way to improve the clock speed. I am anyway setting the
>> > clock
>> > every 10 days on my system.
>> >
>> > thanks
>> > Nav
>>
>> Hi Nav,
>>
>> See if this may be able to help you.
>>
>> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/89...-interval.html
>>
>> Shawn
>>
>>
>> --
>> Brink
>>
>> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
>> '*Vista x64 Forums*'
>> (http://www.vistax64.com/index.php?referrerid=2980)
>> *Please post feedback to help others.*
>>