can any one help me withthis problem
all of a sudden my clock on my tool bar is running 2hrs late nobody as touched any thing!!! that includes my wife or my three grandchildren.
at the time my grandson had left a cdrom game running for about the same time whould this have any bearing on it

You need to provide a little more information, specificaly the version of Windows you are using.

If it's XP, then right click on the clock-choose settings, and Uncheck the option to sync with internet time, as this is known to mess up local time databases.

If this is another version of Windows, then just right click on the clock and set your correct time, it's possible the game just messed up the inital setting and you can simply reset it. :)

Is it possible that the game was stalled or hung for that period of time?

What else was running?

The windows clock is notorious for not being accurate. If something consumes all the system resoruces or hangs the system it can cause the clock to stop.

What version of windows are you running?

Hello tonjoe

I hope I'm not talking nonsense here but here goes!

Your time clock setting is a configuration setting [which you set and ok] and configuration settings are kept in the Registry. If for any reason the PC restored an earlier copy of the Registry [done automatically because a problem had been detected?] your PC would "jump back" and all your configuration settings [including the clock setting] would revert to a previous arrangement. [The previous arrangement might be identical to the present arrangement with the exception of the time clock]

Are their any clues to suggest this may have occurred?

I think when you ok the clock setting the clock starts running from the setting you've given it. When the Registry is restored with a clock setting 2 hours behind [probably during the boot process] it starts running with that time setting.

I say this because I believe I read that Windows automatically reverts to an earlier Registry when it detects a serious problem [during the boot process?].
Perhaps someone could clarify that point.

Sylvander: Sorry, but I have to disagree on this one. I have replaced the Registry in win98 numerous times, with backups made up to a week earlier. My clock always stays the same, including day/date.

My clock tends to not keep great time, so I use a small utility called About Time to get the correct time from the US Naval Observatory about once a week, it keeps the clock fairly accurate.

I'm taking a guess, but this sounds like mjc might be on the right track, although what iisbob pointed out about XP makes sense too...NO telling with XP though, since it tries to connect to M$ and do everything they can possibly think of automatically...

Hello Pete

I'm probably wrong but it isn't so silly as it may sound.

You see here in the UK [where tonjoe is located], Windows automatically moves the clock forward by 1 hour in Spring and back 1 hour in the Autumn [Fall], so just after the change, if the PC goes back it alters the clock by an hour and I've had this happen to me when I restored a backup. I just wanted to introduce it as a possibility to be considered. I don't know tonjoe's particular circumstances.

Is it possible, for example there has been a change of time zone or is it still the same? Has there been a change to this configuration setting?

I use "Atomic Clock Sync" which typically alters my clock time by a few seconds to correct it when I synchronise.

thank you all (iibob/sylvander/mjc/paleopete).
I/we thats my wife and I seem to think the clock ran slow for one of two raesons. first the wallpaper we down loaded from the net or the other one being the game that was still running in the background.since I dumped the wall paper. the clock as been reset and asn't lost a second since.


ps I am running windows 98

i also got similliar problem... but just that my clock is running faster and faster...nobody beside me in my home knows that actully we can set the clock our own, therefore if i didn't change it, nobody will. So my question is...why my clock is runing faster??

I know that the clock is actually powered by a battery found on my motherboard, and i only know that only low-power battery will made the clock slower but not faster... but now mine is faster, can't be my battery too "powerful", right??:confused: