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    Jan 5, 2007, 06:29 PM
    Slowing Clock
    The clock on my computer is slowly losing time. It only loses about 5 minutes in 12 hours, but it's getting very annoying to reset. I'm almost sure that it is not a battery problem, as the computer is only three months old.
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    Jan 5, 2007, 07:10 PM
    Sometimes this occurs during the execution of certain programs , especially games. I remember this was once a problem when you were using AOL, you would lose a few minutes off your clock. What OS are you using? Xp can be set to time sync with a time signal to help with this problem.
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    Jan 5, 2007, 11:25 PM
    I'm using Windows XP. I doubt that it's caused by a program, as I don't use Yahoo or play online games. Plus, It only started doing this two days ago, and nothing changed from three days ago to two days ago. Nothing new, nothing deleted.
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    Jan 6, 2007, 04:02 PM
    Did you try setting up time sync? You can right-click over clock and select Adjust Date/Time. Then click Internet Time tab and check the box marked Automaticaly synchronize with an Internet time server. This should force the correct time.

    Good Luck
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    Jan 7, 2007, 10:03 AM
    Okay, so I tried to synchronize it with an internet clock. Turns out the 'Automatically do it' box was already checked, and the server is time.windows.com. Below it it told me that 'an error occurred while windows was synchronizing with time.windows.com.

    I hit update now just to see if that would fix it, and got the same message back.
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