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Bad problem with clock !!! runing to fast !!!

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I have no idea what is wrong but my windows clock is running at double speed, I think somehow my registry got screwed and interval got lowered or something.. After i sycronize the clock its fine but its running at double speed (Im on xp). If 1 hour goes by it will be 1hour ahead of acuall time, I need someone who is really technically advanced when it comes to XP registry.. This just started happening last night, I dont recall running any programs that are possible viruses and I havent edited the registry for about 5 days and all i did was disable WMP auto update, I have ran 2 different virus scans (norton and webbased scans) and did not find anything (and yes they are upto date). Does anyone possibly know whats wrong ? I even did sfc /scannow command hoping it would fix it, no luck it must be a registry problem. Please help !!!!



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I think that repair will take you to a DOS prompt wont it? I think the easiest way is too just dont format and reinstall windows on top of what you had. It wont affect all of your installed programs. I think that it will start off with fresh registry. Make sure to move your My Docs so that what you have in there doesn't get erased.
 
I didnt buy a big HD yet so I have nothing to back everything up on... I can repair and install over top of it (not repair consol, but after that screen it gives option to repair by installing over top of current install without doing format... But it will still keep all settings so its worthless, I need someone that knows alot about registry and knows were the clock settings are located and what the interval spos to be (e.g: 1000)..

 
Has your clock always run fast? If not, try the repair method without doing a format and see if it fixes your problems. That is what the repair function is for, not to change your preferences if you don't have to. If that doesn't work, then you have lost nothing except for a little time. If this problem (clock issue) has just occured, you might want to attempt a back-up to a day before the event occured.

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I ran a reg cleaner and it reset all my programs and windows now everything is fine..... Now im never going to know what caused it in the first place
 
I had a problem this weekend, where some of my sound disappeared and the video was degraded. I tried to reinstall drivers for the sound card and video card. Nothing I did would make it work as well as it had on Saturday morning. I slept on it overnight and decided to try a System Restore. That did the trick and I am happy my pc is working again the way it should. I do not know what it is that caused the problem, but am relieved that things are back to normal. I like having a good-working and stable computer.

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Hmm,, I didnt have no problem with video or sound, just clock for odd reason. So I downloaded a program called Regcleaner and I just went crazy and deleted every registry in the first tab, And manually deleted registrys that are no longer needed (programs that dont exist, ect) in the other tabs.. Somehow doing this it reset most programs and even made system run alittle faster. The only other thing I did was change the clock syc back to time.windows.com (because I did change that not to long before this happend). Anyway its all fixed now, so im happy 🙂
 
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