How to stop computer from randomly changing times

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  1. Posts : 17
    Windows 7 Professional 64
       #1

    How to stop computer from randomly changing times


    Hey guys,
    The system time on my computer changes randomly, often times to the last time/date that I set to resynchronize it with the actual time. I've switch the CMOS battery with the one in my laptop. but the problem persists. I also manually added windows time (W32Time) in services.msc.
    I also tried stopping it from synchronizing with internet time servers, and also changing it from the windows time server to a .gov time server, but the problem persists!

    Additionally, I ran full scans with AVAST and MBAM, but they both came up clean.

    Do you guys have any suggestions?

    Thanks,
    alpalpa
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  2. Posts : 17,796
    Windows 10, Home Clean Install
       #2

    Welcome
    It does sound like the battery, even though you tested. Can the computer contacts for the battery be dirty or defective?
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  3. Posts : 17
    Windows 7 Professional 64
    Thread Starter
       #3

    I just cleaned out the CMOS area, and I bought another brand new CMOS battery, but am still being affected by this.
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  4. Posts : 18
    Windows 7 Professional
       #4

    Quick question, are you dual booting more than one OS? Say linux and MS?
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  5. Posts : 17
    Windows 7 Professional 64
    Thread Starter
       #5

    No, not at the moment, but I am planning to add a Ubuntu partition to see if it might be something to do with windows.
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  6. Posts : 24,479
    Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1
       #6

    Try your BIOS time and set it to the correct time if it is off. You need to keep the sync with time servers on. Try a manual server time update.
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  7. Posts : 17
    Windows 7 Professional 64
    Thread Starter
       #7

    I did both of the suggestions you posted Britton, as I had previously turned off automatic syncing thinking that was problem. Unfortunately, neither syncing with a time server nor changing system time in BIOS prevented the time from changing.
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  8. Posts : 17,796
    Windows 10, Home Clean Install
       #8

    You may have to boot the computer from time to time to have the correct time.
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  9. Posts : 17
    Windows 7 Professional 64
    Thread Starter
       #9

    Lots of time after booting the time is already off. It gives all the symptoms of a bad CMOS battery, but several replacements/ cleanings are indicating that this is not the case.
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  10. Posts : 1,996
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
       #10

    Make sure the year in the BIOS and the OS is correct.
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