Full Error Message: “The time service has not synchronized the system time for 86400 seconds because none of the time service providers provided a usable time stamp. The time service is no longer synchronized and cannot provide the time to other clients or update the system clock. Monitor the system events displayed in the Event Viewer to make sure that a more serious problem does not exist. “

I was getting this message in my event log on my Windows 2003 server, so I made a few changes. I’m making the Windows Time service get the time from a time server.

Here’s what I did to change it using regedit.exe

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters\Type

Changed to: NTP

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Config\AnnounceFlags

Changed REG_DWORD value from 10 to 5.

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters\NtpServer

left this at: time.windows.com,0×1

Then I restarted the Windows Time service and everything has been good since then.

I found this information from this article.

Here is another article that might help with the same thing, but didn’t help me.

Cheers.

Thanks For Visiting!