Time error

My system time is about five minutes out, so I tried updating the internet
time and the following error was shown: "An error occured while Windows was
syncronizing with time.windows.com." The time is still wrong, can anyone
help? Thanks.

sometimes time drift can be a battery going bad. Afa the rror trying to sync
up w/Inet time. That sounds like a spyware or AntiVrius prog. blocking your
update. Check those out and see what happens. Good luck...

"Alex" <> wrote in message
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> My system time is about five minutes out, so I tried updating the internet
> time and the following error was shown: "An error occured while Windows
> was
> syncronizing with time.windows.com." The time is still wrong, can anyone
> help? Thanks.

Larry Mauriello wrote:

> sometimes time drift can be a battery going bad.


No, this is at best very misleading.

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, it can *not* be the
battery, because the battery isn't used while the computer is running.


> Afa the rror trying
> to sync up w/Inet time. That sounds like a spyware or AntiVrius prog.
> blocking your update. Check those out and see what happens. Good
> luck...


Highly unlikely. The first thing to try is simply switching to another time
server.

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> "Alex" <> wrote in message
> news:A8B42A11-2033-4CC7-A0E4-...
>> My system time is about five minutes out, so I tried updating the
>> internet time and the following error was shown: "An error occured
>> while Windows was
>> syncronizing with time.windows.com." The time is still wrong, can
>> anyone help? Thanks.