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Internet Time Synching on Windows ME?

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First post, by Fujoshi-hime

Posted on 2024-10-06, 04:10

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As is goes, the time on my Windows ME machine does 'drift' over a year or so. Syncing the time with the internet was not introduced until XP I think. Does anyone know of any tools that work today ain 2024 to get a Windows ME build to periodicaly sync the time with an always on internet connection?

Reply 1 of 4, by myne

Posted on 2024-10-06, 04:58

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https://wiki.gude-systems.com/Ntp_Clients

https://ss64.com/nt/net-time.html
Net time may also work

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Reply 2 of 4, by Robbbert

Posted on 2024-10-06, 05:41

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There's a registry patch you can apply to Windows 2000 to get it to sync like XP does, but of course the extra applet pane isn't there.

https://www.timesynctool.com/ has a wonderful tool called Net-Time.

I've used Net-Time on all my computers from Win95 through to Vista, and I'm starting to install it on Windows 7. Works perfectly well, no issues at all.

The great thing is that if you don't bother with a battery or it's gone flat, Net-Time will fix the time, bypassing Microsoft's so-called "security" limitation (only allows adjustment if the time is no more than about 12 hours out).

I don't have ME, but I can't see any reason why it shouldn't work like all the other OS's.

Reply 3 of 4, by javispedro1

Posted on 2024-10-08, 17:52

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+1 to Net-Time which I have been using since literally forever on all 9x (incl ME)

Reply 4 of 4, by eM-!3

Posted on 2024-10-12, 11:10

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I'm another one who uses NetTime (in XP). From my own experience Microsoft time sync is unreliable and it's hard to configure advanced settings without registry editor or some other tool. On modern Windows I use Time-Sync: https://www.speed-soft.de/software/time_sync/ … php?language=en Unfortunately it needs Windows NT 4.0 to run.

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