Vista time setting utilities

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Any third party time utilities available, preferably free

And yes I know windows has one but it will only do it automatically once a
week, I need at least once a day.
 
Leadfoot said:
Any third party time utilities available, preferably free

And yes I know windows has one but it will only do it automatically once a
week, I need at least once a day.
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Check out

http://www.dougknox.com/

Under XP Utilities Doug has a tweak that allows you to specify weekly,
daily, hourly or custom time periods for update.

Tom Lake
 
Any third party time utilities available, preferably free
Check out

http://www.dougknox.com/

Under XP Utilities Doug has a tweak that allows you to specify weekly,
daily, hourly or custom time periods for update.
Click to expand...

Augh! I sent that before I actually tried it on Vista. It only works on
XP.
Sorry!

Tom Lake
 
I first posted this when Windows XP was still in beta. It applies to Windows
Vista as well.


Windows XP (and now Windows Vista), as loaded, automatically updates the
system time every 7 days from one of the (default) time servers. This
update interval can be changed as follows:

Go to Start/Run. Type in regedit (the registry editor), then press enter.
Using regedit, press control/F (search). Type in "specialpollinterval"
without the quotes. Press enter.

When search has found the first entry, double click on the highlighted name.
Change the "base" to decimal. 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, 3600 seconds in one hour. Click O.K.

Press F3 to find the next entry. Do this for each instance of the decimal
value "specialpollinterval".

Exit regedit.

Now reboot your system for the change to take effect.

Cheers!!!"


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Richard Urban
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