Thread: Clock synchronization of the Windows-improved

At regular intervals using Windows, the so-called "Internet time synchronization" to check the bottom right and adjust system time displayed. By default, while the Microsoft server time.windows.com is used. Disadvantage: Worldwide, there are of course numerous Windows computers that access the server and thus proposes the synchronization fails often.


You can easily set, which will use Windows server to synchronize the time. With Windows 7, just click the right mouse button on the Windows Clock and "Adjust Date / Time" from the context menu. A window appears in which the current time is displayed. Here you click the third tab "Internet Time" and then "Change Settings".




In this dialog you can now set the desired network time server. By default time.windows.com is selected. A good and reliable alternative is pool.ntp.org


These supplies are a big virtual cluster of time servers, the clients with the current time. Worldwide,over 1,800 such Internet time server exists, the pool.ntp.org are on together. And most Linux distributions use pool.ntp.org for syncing the system time.So just bear "pool.ntp.org" next to "Server" and set - if not yet exist - "Synchronize with an Internet time server" checkbox at. The rest is done by Windows itself now.