Vista Tutorial - Internet Time synchronization

There are enough new people here that I feel I should post this again.


I found this reply I wrote to a question on 10/28/2001. It is still
applicable to, and
works just fine with Vista. I have added what additional may help with
Vista:


"Windows XP, as loaded, automatically updates the system time every 7 days
from one of two time servers (more choices available in Vista). This
interval can be changed as follows:

Go to Start. Type run in the search box (new for Vista).

In the search box type regedit.

Using regedit, search (press ctrl/F) for "specialpollinterval" without the
quotes.

Double click on the key in the right screen.

Click on decimal.

You will see that the decimal value is 604800, the number of seconds in 7
days.

Highlight the number to edit this decimal value to any value you desire,
remembering that there are
86400 seconds in one day, 3600 seconds in an hour.

Click OK

Press F3 to find the next instance of the same key

Do the above for each instance of the value "specialpollinterval".

When you get to the end of the registry, close the window.

Reboot system.

You have now changed the polling interval of when your computer will update
it's internal clock with that of the internet time server.

Cheers!!!"

--


Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User

I don't wish to be a party pooper, but when I tried Richard's tip, I found
that the value at

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient

was already set to 3600.

When I pressed F3 (Find Next)
No more instances.

Guy.

"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> There are enough new people here that I feel I should post this again.
>
>
> I found this reply I wrote to a question on 10/28/2001. It is still
> applicable to, and
> works just fine with Vista. I have added what additional may help with
> Vista:
>
>
> "Windows XP, as loaded, automatically updates the system time every 7 days
> from one of two time servers (more choices available in Vista). This
> interval can be changed as follows:
>
> Go to Start. Type run in the search box (new for Vista).
>
> In the search box type regedit.
>
> Using regedit, search (press ctrl/F) for "specialpollinterval" without the
> quotes.
>
> Double click on the key in the right screen.
>
> Click on decimal.
>
> You will see that the decimal value is 604800, the number of seconds in 7
> days.
>
> Highlight the number to edit this decimal value to any value you desire,
> remembering that there are
> 86400 seconds in one day, 3600 seconds in an hour.
>
> Click OK
>
> Press F3 to find the next instance of the same key
>
> Do the above for each instance of the value "specialpollinterval".
>
> When you get to the end of the registry, close the window.
>
> Reboot system.
>
> You have now changed the polling interval of when your computer will
> update
> it's internal clock with that of the internet time server.
>
> Cheers!!!"
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban MVP
> Microsoft Windows Shell/User
>
>