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Make Windows Clock More Accurate – Part II

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 08:31 AM PDT

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Last month I wrote a post ‘Make Windows Clock More Accurate‘ explaining how to make the windows clock more accurate by changing the server that Windows uses to synchronize time. As some readers pointed out, this didn’t completely fix the problem of Windows always running late.

The problem goes even deeper, and it appears that Window’s inbuilt task to synchronize time is, well, a bit stupid. This task will only check if the Windows Time Service is running, and will only update the time once a week even if you change the schedule. To stop the couple of minutes a week drift in Windows, we have to create our own task to get the windows time to update once a day

Create Scheduled Task

Go to the start menu and type in ‘Task Scheduler’ and click on the link
Click on ‘Create Task’ in window that opens up.
Give the task a name like daily time update
In General, click on ‘Change User or Group…’ and enter ‘Local Service’. Also tick ‘Run with highest privileges’ and choose the configuration operation for your Operating System

Go to the ‘Triggers’ tab and click new. Choose ‘Daily’ and choose a time for the task to run
Go to the ‘Actions’ tab and add these actions in this order :