to avoid too much time offset between time update with W7
u can use this registry trick to modify the update time upate to 1hour
windows XP trick here https://nephi.unice.fr/ntp/

don't know if it exist for W10

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to avoid too much time offset between time update with W7
u can use this registry trick to modify the update time upate to 1hour
windows XP trick here https://nephi.unice.fr/ntp/

don't know if it exist for W10

Hi 27,

I don't read French. I'm leery of using a translator because of what I read in posts from Juan in Panama and how broken up the translation can be. I don't blame Juan, just the translator. :)

Have a great day! :)

Siran

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CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\//
Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

Juan IS the translator, so I guess you are blaming Juan. he's not using something like Google translate when he posts, he's posting in the English that he knows.

Google translate does pretty well, especially on easier translations like French to English. or German to English. it has a harder time with things like Japanese or Chinese to English if you don't already understand their grammar. In any case you should expect to read between the lines a bit and use a little critical thinking to understand what the original meaning is where the translator might not get it exactly right.

this is the section he was talking about:

PC windows XP

Time setting by a time server is set here:

In Start / Settings / Control Panel
Click in Date and time
Click on the Internet Time tab
To the right of "Server:", type ntp.unice.fr
Click on Update
Click on OK
Concern: the time will be synchronized once a week!

To modify this delay and for synchronization to be done for example every hour, the following procedure must be carefully followed:
In Start / Run "
Type regedit, then click OK
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ ControlSet001 \ Services \ W32Time \ TimeProviders \ NtpClient
Change the value of SpecialPollInterval, and put 3600 instead of 604800.
Close the registry editor.

literally just copy/paste from Google translate.

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Juan IS the translator, so I guess you are blaming Juan. he's not using something like Google translate when he posts, he's posting in the English that he knows.

Or in other words posting in something like Engesport only few could rely understand. LOL

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Juan IS the translator, so I guess you are blaming Juan. he's not using something like Google translate when he posts, he's posting in the English that he knows.

Or in other words posting in something like Engesport only few could rely understand. LOL

Hi Juan,

My apologies. :( I was under the impression that you were using a translator like Google. :)

Have a great day! :)

Siran

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CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\//
Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

Not worry. I always know my English is very bad.

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Another program called "testdisk" was needed.

In any case, testdisk is a lifesaver.
It really works diamonds.

I wanted to install Ubuntu on a USB memory (not a live version, a complete, albeit stripped to the bones, bootable system).
I made a mistake, probably forgetting to have Grub installed on the USB and not on the main HD and havoc happened.
Win10 was gone, together with partitions with data.
Few tears for WIN10, but the data had to be saved.
Found no remedy.

Kept the system frozen for months hoping something would show up.
Until I read (probably in these very SETI forums) about testdisk.

I managed first to copy all the files in a safe disk for good measure, and then to recover the partition altogether, a click away.
I had to reinstall Win10, but that was a 30 minutes job,
I am also not actually using WIN10, so I just made a lazy installation, leaving all the tricks for a better day.

Then I installed Kubuntu on a HD partition from VirtualBox, converted it to raw, copied to the HD, used bootrepairdisk to have all OS on the disk discovered and integrated in GRUB and now I can switch easily between the two after boot (M$ boot manager obviously vanished, without anybody complaining).

I know Keith does not like to use GRUB to control the boot and he likes system to reside in different disks, which I usually do myself.

But in this case I had no spare disk, and after the procedure everything is working like a charm.

Cheers!

Not "bad", just interesting, and certainly most of the time quite understandable if read with a sort of Latinesque accent

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

I don't like using GRUB for dissimilar OS' that's all. I have no problem using GRUB for my two or three Ubuntu partitions, with my main 18.04 LTS daily driver, the latest short term release 19.10 and an older 16.04 LTS partition for compiling for older exectuables.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

Not "bad", just interesting, and certainly most of the time quite understandable if read with a sort of Latinesque accent

As someone here tells me one time, my English was a lot better than his Spanish or Portuguese. :)

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