bryanjax,
This is one of the most asked questions in this Forum. I just went to this Link,

http://www.rocketsoftware.com/rockettime/

and installed Rocket time and it works great. You can read the Forum and find other solutions to the "Clock" problem. To me this was the fastest and easiest.

marvin P

XPS B800r
512MBz Ram
Windows XP (2/1/02)
&
8200 1.8G
512MBz Ram
XP
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Try this................

Disable Internet Time Synchronization
1. Click the Start button and then click Control Panel. The Control Panel window appears.
2. Click the Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options link.
3. Click the Date and Time link.
4. The Date and Time Properties screen appears.
5. Correct the time displayed if incorrect.
6. Click the Internet Time tab.
7. Click to uncheck Automatically synchronize with an Internet time server.
8. Click OK.

n/t
Marvin P

XPS B800r
512MBz Ram
Windows XP (2/1/02)
&
8200 1.8G
512MBz Ram
XP
&
Truck Vanity Plate "Dell4Me" (Maine)

Hello, I did the fix that Skybird reccomended and so far so good. My 8200 clock ran fine for about a month and then slowed down. After I disabled the internet time sync the PC seems to keep good time. My 2 cents worth. Mike

Greetings:

You have one the most common problems that is posted on this forum if you read down this page or past pages...

First try this..... Turn off the internet time synchronization in XP... See instructions here and read more info:
http://support.dell.com/us/en/kb/document.asp?DN=1060115

If you use Norton make sure you have all of the updates.

If the above doesn't help, try this:
Type the following commands from a MS-DOS prompt.
net stop w32time
w32tm /unregister (may need to repeat if you get access denied)
w32tm /register
net start w32time

If none of the above work you MAY wish to try this. You may wish to skip this one unless your comfortable with working in the registry.
http://delltalk.us.dell.com/messages/frame_message_view.asp?name=dim_other&id=ztlpq&bandwidth=fra

Hope you have better luck than I did.
My clock, GAINS time, I tried all the suggestions that I have seen posted on this forum. None helped!

So I downloaded and installed FREE Rocket Clock. Rocket Clock has more options than Atomic Clock, I have tried them both.
http://www.rocketsoftware.com/rockettime/screenshot.asp
I setup Rocket Clock to reset my Windows clock every 8 hours... Now my stupid Windows clock is a very smart clock!

I also installed this neat free "Clock Enhancer", TClockEx, allows you to setup the plain Windows clock in the fashion you like, type/style of display, date, colors, etc.
http://users.iafrica.com/d/da/dalen/tclockex.htm
BTW... TClockEx works great with W-XP.






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Hi

Here's what I did 9 months ago went to www.worldtimeserver.com and downloaded AtomicClock Sync.v.2.2 and keeped perfect time ever since, it's free and I found it to be a good little program,with no vices and from personal experience know it works on W98se, Wme and XP.

or

Another answer is >>dbl click on the time in the bottom taskbar >> Date and time properties >> clk on Internet Time >> Uncheck the box next to "Automatically Sychronize With Time Server "

or

Use both of the above.

and also go to
http:/support.dell.com/us/en/kb/document_print.asp?DN=HO1016518


Bev