An Error Occured While Windows Was Synchronizing With Time.windows.com
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we highly recommend that you visit our Guide for New Members. Solved: Unable to Synchronize with Internet Time Server Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by psylock, Mar 13, 2014. Thread Status: Not open for further replies. Advertisement psylock Thread Starter Joined: Dec 19, 2012 Messages: 166 Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2 OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3, 32 bit Processor: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz, x86 Family 6 http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-performance/an-error-occurred-while-windows-was-synchronizing/a1ebc723-247f-4246-a995-0bcd7948099a Model 14 Stepping 8 Processor Count: 2 RAM: 2551 Mb Graphics Card: Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family, 224 Mb Hard Drives: C: Total - 57231 MB, Free - 49149 MB; Motherboard: Hewlett-Packard, 30AD Antivirus: avast! Antivirus, Updated: Yes, On-Demand Scanner: Enabled Hello, I am unable to update my internet time I keep getting the error message that says "An https://forums.techguy.org/threads/solved-unable-to-synchronize-with-internet-time-server.1121852/ error occurred while Windows was synchronizing with time-a.nist.gov." I tried synchronizing with time-a.nist.gov, time.nist.gov, and time.windows.com -- I guess these are the default Internet time servers. There is also an error message in the Event log, I will paste a copy of the Event Viewer error message below. Event Type: Error Event Source: W32Time Event Category: None Event ID: 29 Date: 3/12/2014 Time: 8:43:04 PM User: N/A Computer: Description: The time provider NtpClient is configured to acquire time from one or more time sources, however none of the sources are currently accessible. No attempt to contact a source will be made for 14 minutes. NtpClient has no source of accurate time. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. I tried doing a system restore to an earlier point when I was able to update the internet date/time, but that did not resolve the issue, I am still unable to update internet date and time. I know that Microsoft will end support for XP on April 8, but I will be using this unt
Just Using a Phone in Your Car? Subscribe l l FOLLOW US TWITTER GOOGLE+ FACEBOOK http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/dealing-with-windows-vista-time-sync-problems/ GET UPDATES BY EMAIL Enter your email below to get exclusive access http://toddsnotes.blogspot.com/2009/11/microsoft-genius-error-occurred-while.html to our best articles and tips before everybody else. RSS ALL ARTICLES FEATURES ONLY TRIVIA Search How-To Geek Dealing With Windows Vista Time Sync Problems Many people have reported problems with synchronizing their clocks with the internet time servers, especially time.windows.com, which seems to have a ton an error of problems with uptime. We'll go through a few workarounds to fix this issue. The error you will typically get is "An error occurred while Windows was synchronizing with time.windows.com. This operation returned because the timeout period expired." Changing the Time Server You can change the default time server by right-clicking on the clock, and then choose Adjust Date/Time from an error occured the menu. Click on the Internet Time tab. Now click the Change settings button. In the Internet Time Settings dialog, you can change the default server by choosing an item from the drop-down, or you can type in a new entry. You can also test it immediately by clicking the Update now button. I've had the best luck with time-a.nist.gov, but that might be because of my location. Here's a list of a couple of time servers that you can try instead: pool.ntp.org NTP Pool Address time-a.nist.gov NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland time-b.nist.gov NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland time-a.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov NIST, Boulder, Colorado time-b.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov NIST, Boulder, Colorado You canfind a longer list here:http://tf.nist.gov/service/time-servers.html Change the Default Update Interval If your clock is constantly out of sync even though it says the sync was successful, the problem could be that your computer is losing time because of a system clock problem. A workaround in this instance is to change the NTP client to update more often. Open regedit.exe through the start menu search box, and then find this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\w32time\TimeProviders\NtpClient Double-click on the key on t
the systray, select the third tab which is labeled 'Internet Time', and try the 'Update Now' tab.You will get the "An error occurred while Windows was synchronizing with time.windows.com" message. Try a different server, then 'update now'. Still get the error?I did a little research, and found this long forum post about how this is broken everywhere --FYI To Microsoft: Windows Time Synchronization Completely Broken (Vista, 2003, XP are all broken), which contained these instructions, which worked for me:We simply instruct them "to click on the time icon on the desktop, then click the Internet Time tab, and then copy the following blue text only - tick.usno.navy.mil - and next paste it in the Server: Field, then click on Apply, then Update Now and finally OK. Done, no more error messages. Ok, isn't that what I did? No. (blogger fonts are whack when you paste text in from a webkit browser... I'm going with it). What's missing? What did I do differently?APPLY.This is genius! After you change the value, you have to click apply to tell microsoft windows you changed it. What should be a obvious intuitive interface is subtly subverted. You change the value to X, and click update now. Doesn't it use that value? It says, "error connecting to X" but it doesn't use that value? Not til you click Apply! Why don't that have another button that says "ok, I clicked that button" ?This is a cash cow for microsoft! How many people have called and been charged $59 for this? Whoever thought it up surely got a lot of stock options and probably a promotion to VP, or a special position where they can apply this feature to other parts of the system (send in your examples). An MBA student could do a thesis on this...Well, I tested on 3 2003 Servers which had this problem, but the XP system actually worked [but that was probably a bug].I couldn't test on Vista, because the police took that computer.... I guess I only read about a third of that post -- it looks like there could be multiple issues, or there are different types of voodoo that can cu