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3 Reasons Why Your Windows Computer Clock Loses Its Time & Date

Posted on 14 January 2011. Tags: Clock, Computer, date, Loses, Reasons, time, Windows

class="align-left" style="border: 0px none; margin-left: 20px; margin-top: 5px; float: right;" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ComputerTime03.jpg" alt="computer clock loses time" width="225" height="238" />There are many things that most people take for granted. One of them is that clocks always show the current time. When you tend to rely on your computer’s time and your computer clock loses time, this can be fatal.

There are several situations where the Windows clock starts showing the wrong time. If you’re obsessed with having the exact time on your computer no matter what, you may want to set up synchronization with a remote server. Before you do that however, please note that an inaccurate Windows clock should not be taken lightly.

If the computer clock loses time although you keep fixing it, there may be a serious cause. This article shows you what the underlying causes may be and how you can fix them.

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1. CMOS Battery

This is the most likely scenario, especially if your computer is not brand new.

The CMOS battery sits on your computer’s motherboard and provides power to the Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) chip. The CMOS chip stores information about the system configuration, including the date and time. The CMOS battery makes sure the chip can store this data even while the computer is turned off and not hooked up to power. If the battery goes bad, the chip starts losing information and one of the symptoms is that your computer no longer maintains its time and date.

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Replacing the CMOS battery is pretty easy. You just have to turn off your computer, class="vt-p" title="How To Ground Yourself" href="http://www.wikihow.com/Ground-Yourself-to-Avoid-Destroying-a-Computer-with-Electrostatic-Discharge">ground yourself, open the case, find out which class="vt-p" title="Find CMOS Battery Type" href="http://www.smartcomputing.com/Editorial/article.asp?article=articles/2004/w1510/32w10/32w10.asp">type of battery (step 3 in the linked guide) sits on your motherboard, go buy it, start over, and class="vt-p" title="How To Replace the CMOS Battery" href="http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000239.htm">exchange the battery. Follow the links to the keywords for articles on the respective steps.

2. Time Zone

This is an easy to fix cause for when your computer clock loses time.

Your computer may simply be set to the wrong time zone and every time you fix the time, it resets itself to that time zone when you reboot. If the minutes are correct and only the hour is bad, that’s probably the issue you’re dealing with.

In Windows 7 you can easily fix the time zone. Right-click the system clock in your taskbar and select > Adjust date/time. Under the headline > Time Zone check whether the information is correct. If not, click the > Change time zone… button and set your time zone. Don’t forget to confirm your changes and you’re all set.

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3. Malware

This is the least pleasant and most difficult to manage scenario.

Your computer may have been hijacked by a virus that messes with your computer time. To fix it, you need to gather a few tools. First, make sure your anti-virus program is up to date with the latest virus definitions. Then get a good malware scanner, for example class="vt-p" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/stop-and-delete-spyware-with-malwarebytes-windows-only">Malwarebytes or Spybot Search & Destroy. For more tools and links to the respective download pages, check out our class="vt-p" title="The Best Of: Windows Software" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/best-windows-software">The Best Of: Windows Software page.

Once you have all these tools downloaded, updated and installed, class="vt-p" title="How To Start Windows in Safe Mode" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/start-windows-safe-mode/">start in Safe Mode and run them. It’s important to start in safe mode because the malware won’t launch and be active when you choose this boot mode. This means that it is less likely to escape detection and removal.

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Conclusion

It’s important to pay attention to the most basic features of your computer. Simple things going wrong can be a sign of serious trouble ahead. For example if your CMOS battery dies, your computer will act like it has Alzheimers and you have to introduce it to its hardware components (via the BIOS) every time it boots. That’s just as annoying as a virus that plays tricks on you or a bad time zone setting that messes up everything from the clock to your email client’s time stamps. So be wise and act immediately.

Be sure to also class="vt-p" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/pc-times-match-atomic-clock-sync-windows">check out Jeffry’s article on synchronizing your PC clock with an atomic clock.

Do you sync the time on your computer and what made you set that up?

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The Clock of Doodle

Posted on 14 July 2010. Tags: Clock, Doodle

Transcript of Video: OK! Doodle. Dododo … doodle. Ah, that’s cute. I can’t say “no” to a child, so I had to do this. I don’t know what time it is. What time is it? I have to disqualify myself because I found out about NinjaJessie1 through and TheBlueFlamingo has made a clock. I can’t … I just met TheBlueFlamingo so I can’t compete against him. but I have to make the clock. I did get something called Camstudio; it’s free. You can make tutorials, using this … Camstudio. Whatever. I don’t know anything! as long as I don’t have to read the help menu. Don’t make me read it. I decided to make the clock using Pixia, wihch is a freeware editing … it’s a graphics editing program. I guess it’s fairly robust for what it is. and they say the best things in life are free. That’s not necessisarily true, but this is supposed to be free of adware and spyware and what-not. So I put links in the description. OK? I had to do the audio outside because the computers … the fan is just so loud it makes it “eech.” So I’m making a clock for Doodle! Did anybody watch Sesame Street? Remember The Count? “I am The Count and I love to Count.” and remember the song … the counting song? 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 … eleven. Twelve. You have to have twelve! I made this clock to show 4:30, because I made the clock at 4:30 AM I made the hands kind of silly. That’s not the way the hands of a clock would usually look. So the hour hand … and the minute hand. OK, it’s 4:30, and you know it’s 4:30 …

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Windows Hack Tool – Clock Stopper (Read Description For Why You Need It)

Posted on 08 July 2010. Tags: Clock, DESCRIPTION, hack, Need, Read, Stopper, Tool, Windows

Windows Hack Tool – Clock Stopper Despite file size, this is NOT a virus or spyware, I made it myself!!!!!! This is a script that runs through the command line… Instructions is many languages are included! What purpose does this script serve? Well some people have specific reason for needing this but I have some common reasons for using this: Trial Version Software — By stopping your clock for lets say Kaspersky Antivirus (personal favorite) you can now use it without the 30 day limitation, every time you log into windows, simply just run the script and the clock will stop. At this point any trial versions will now be trial versions which it’s expiration will not be reached ….. DRM (Digital Rights Management) — For those who had download music off of Ruckus, or media from an online library, which has media that expires, this method with stop them from expiring as long as you faithfull run this…. Viruses & Malware — Some viruses and malware work on the clock, mainly the ones which operate via the internet causing Internet Explorer to open up every five minutes. This is a temp solution until you can either track down it or buy antiBITCHware… and whatever other legit or recreational uses you find for it! Have fun and read the directions for use and troubleshooting www.emucraze.co.nr