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

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hey man thats what i needed to know.

BTW, Is there a better more responsive time server than the defaults?
time.windows.com and nist show an error about 90% of the time I
sychronize the time manually...

Is there a better one or a list of public servers?
I'm in the southeastern us if that helps any.

thanks,
pedro sanchez

On Mon, 22 May 2006 22:25:33 -0400, "Richard Urban"
<richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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