Solved How to stop computer from randomly changing times

[Layback Bear]

From post #15 by Sardonicus.
Download and instal HWiNFO32
HWiNFO32 Download
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It also downloaded without my permission.
AVG and Babylon.

 

[alpalpa]

Thanks for the fix Sardonicus, still kind of curious/worried about what the is actually causing the time of desync in the first place though.

Also, would setting the repeat to 5 minutes hurt system preformance/ cause stress on my internet connection?

Also, HWINFO did not download AVG nor babylon onto my computer, and I didn't receive any sort of prompt to allow HWINFO to add the programs either.

 

[Layback Bear]

Well I didn't make the story up. It did it to my computer. That why I gave the warning. I'm glad your problem is fixed. Happy computing.

 

[Sardonicus]

It shouldn't. Synchronization should be instantaneous, a few second, if that.
I changed the HWINFO link to the home page.
I downloaded from the Primary USA link, with no problem or added stuff.
Those other links......users should download from them, using their own discretion.

 

[alpalpa]

This time I waited kept an eye on the clock before it reset, and it looks like it reverts back almost exactly 1 hour from the last time reset.

 

[F5ing]

The BIOS clock increments okay?

 

[Britton30]

Well I didn't make the story up. It did it to my computer. That why I gave the warning. I'm glad your problem is fixed. Happy computing.

Odd, I just tried your link Layback and installed HWinfo only. Sardonicus's link was different though and I didn't try that download. I'm sure you didn't make it up, 'tis an oddity though.

 

[Layback Bear]

Thank you Sardonicus!

 

[alpalpa]

2 very strange things happened, when I restarted my computer today, I went to taskschd.msc, to check on SynchronizeTime, and found that it was completely gone from Active tasks. Upon going to services in task manager, I could see that W32 time was running however.
Took another look at EventViewer, and saw, "application popup" had failed 15 times in the past 7 days, and also has the same PID as W32Time when viewing services.
Does this mean that W32 time is crashing, causing my time to reset?

I should also note that the BIOS time is the same as the time shown in windows, and it increments time fine until it reverts to a previous time.

EDIT: Accidentally mistook event ID as PID in event viewer(both 1060). Not 100% sure if they are unrelated though. Also was able to get SynchronizeTime back in taskschd by unregistering and re-registering Time Service.

 

[alpalpa]

Thanks for the huge amount of help guys!
I did manage to stumble across the solution!!
To fix it, I stopped windows time service, unregistered it, re-registered it, restarted the service, then synced the times.

Thanks again to all the people who posted

 

[Britton30]

You're welcome and glad you found a way to fix it.

 

[TiM801]

Hey, what do you mean you fixed it by re registering time? Can you please help me I'm having the same issue mine resets every hour or so. Please and thank you!

 

[Britton30]

Hey, what do you mean you fixed it by re registering time? Can you please help me I'm having the same issue mine resets every hour or so. Please and thank you!

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