Re: .Time Sych on XP:How to change frequency of time set??

Windows XP, as loaded, automatically updates the system time every 7 days
from one of two (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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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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"Pedro Sanchez" <Dr.PedroSanchez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:c6r472d142rb0h6v8e50412c9p9d5t46rv@xxxxxxxxxx
I'm using win-xp SP2, I need to know the exact registry key to edit so
that I can force the OS to set the time more often than once a week.
I want it to do it more often because it seems to drift a lot of
minutes inside a week.

So if anyone can provide the registry entry location that would be
great.

Thanks,
Pedro



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