Using WindowsTime in Win2k

I had always disabled the windows time service because I didn't see any obvious way to configure it and I was frankly too lazy to go find how to do it; however, on a couple of systems the time was very important and I was required to get it working.

Courtesy of www.regedit.com:

Start -> Run -> RegEdt32

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters

Delete value Period

Add Value: Period (REG_DWORD)
0 - once a day
65535 - once every 2 days
65534 - once every 3 days
65533 - once every week (7 days)
65532 - once every 45 minutes until 3 good synchronizations occur, then once every 8 hours (3 per day) [default]
65531 - once every 45 minutes until 1 good synchronization occurs, then once every day


Change Value: Type
Set to 'NTP' (It is probably NT5DS)

Add Value: NtpServer (REG_SZ)
Set to 'Your_timeserver_here'

Add Value: ReliableTimeSource (REG_DWORD)
Set to '0'

Control Panel->administrative tools->services

stop/start WindowsTime

(you might have to enable it if you disabled)


/nebulus

Finaly someone figures it out! Ive been wondering how to do that also without having to get some stupid program that just sits in the system tray and anoys me. Very usefull post(atleast to me)! Thanx nebulus200!