"Dale" <dale0973@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
news:BD0B6236-CADD-4B80-9C79-49774BD8FC2B@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for the tip. That was exactly the problem. I have gotten in the
> habit of not considering time on a new PC because Windows handles it on
> its
> own. But this was partly my fault; apparently when I set the time and
> date
> in the BIOS when I built the machine, I set it one day off.
>
> What was weird is that I discovered, after posting the original question
> here, that I could access the new box if I turned its Vista firewall off
> so I
> thought I had a firewall issue. But after reading your suggestion and
> fixing
> the time difference, I was able to access the new box with the firewall
> on.
>
> One thing I discovered while fixing the time is that Vista defaults to
> updating the time from the Internet only once a week. Is there a way to
> change that?
>
> --
> Dale Preston
> MCAD C#
> MCSE, MCDBA
>
>
Yes...
You can increase or decrease the frequency of updates by making a simple
registry change. Add or change the "SpecialPollInterval" DWORD setting. Note
the value is in seconds...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient\
For example the value is set to 3600 on my Vista and XP machines (that's in
seconds), so the machines poll the time server once each hour.
Public time servers...
http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq...e-servers.html http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ntp.html http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/WebHome
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