How can I change the time synchronization interval?

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Blair MacDonald

Does anyone know the registry key to add/modify to force time
synchronization faster than weekly. I got it off this newsgroup a long time
ago and have recently had a disk crash that I'm finally recovering from.

Thanks,

Blair MacDonald
 
Found this by doing a google search of this newsgroup:

Using regedit, search for "specialpollinterval" without the quotes.You will
see that the decimal value is 604800, the number of seconds in 7 days. Edit
this decimal value to any value you desire, remembering that there are 86400
seconds in one day. Do this for each instance of the value
"specialpollinterval". Reboot system.

That tip was originally provided by Al Peterson.
 
Does anyone know the registry key to add/modify to force time
synchronization faster than weekly.
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I don't, but you want want to consider using a third-party
program to do this. For example, I recommend Tclock, which does
this and several other useful things (but do not confuse Tclock
with the similarly-named, but not as good--in my
opinion--Tclockex).
 
Hi

The Internet Time interval can be changed via the Registry - **Please backup your Registry before editing it**

Navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient (SpecialPollInterval)

and double click on it. The default decimal value is 604800 (seconds) - one week. You can then change that value to whatever you like. I have mine set to 86400 (seconds) - 24 hours.

Will
 
I went to the TClock home page. It is said to run in NT but there is no
mention of XP. Will it cause problems in XP?
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I can't guarantee what the author won't, but I doubt it very
much. I can tell you it's caused no problems on my XP machine or
any of the other three or four I've installed it on.

--
Ken Blake
Please reply to the newsgroup

 
Blair said:
Does anyone know the registry key to add/modify to force time
synchronization faster than weekly. I got it off this newsgroup a long time
ago and have recently had a disk crash that I'm finally recovering from.
Click to expand...

Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\
W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient

and in the right pane, value (in seconds) of SpecialPollInterval

Note that after a few days at say 86400 the systems idea of your
machines natural rate will have been adjusted and you will not need such
frequent checks
 
| I went to the TClock home page. It is said to run in NT but there is no
| mention of XP. Will it cause problems in XP?

TClock runs perfectly in XP.

Larc



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