[Prodigal Son]

Nope but I'll tag a couple questions of my own to your thread. Got a brand new computer for my wife. 1.8 gigahertz, 512 mB ram, 80G hard drive, DVD/CD RW and Win XP. That's one cool machine and my wife loves it. I'm still happy with my system running Win ME.

Anyway, everytime my wife cuts her computer off and back on the clock displays the wrong time. We've tried resetting it and setting it to update via internet, checked proper time zones etc- no dice.

The other thing: The little icon on the tray that shows you're connected to the internet has gone missing. When my wife's finished surfing she can't figure out how to disconnect and she has to let it time out or shut down. Can anybody tell me how to get that little icon back and how to get the clock to show the proper time and date?

[HairOfTheDog]

As for the clock.... double click it in the tray, and set it.

[Bogey78O]

I had a program integrated into one of my computers that kept resetting my browser to hit ads when I started it. It seems my sis accidentally installed it. She's also the one that got me infected with Nimda. I really don't know how to help you clear it up. Sorry.

I enjoy my system. 2 Ghz 40Gig HD w/ 1.5 Gig Ram

[gcraig]

"Anyway, everytime my wife cuts her computer off and back on the clock displays the wrong time."

You will have to change your CMOS battery on the system board to fix this. Be sure to get the correct part number before changing it.

"The other thing: The little icon on the tray that shows you're connected to the internet has gone missing."

Right click the connection object in the Dial up Networking folder and locate the setting to display in the task bar. I'm not sure about WinXP, but Win2k has this option.

[IoCaster]

Control panel--->network connections--->click on the name of your connection in the main window and a menu in the left pane will display a list of options. Click on (change settings for this connection) and you'll see a check box (show icon) at the bottom of the dialog box that opens.

[Solar Wind]

Dear Prodigal,

I don't know how to permanently fix the PC clock but I do know of a utility that you can download off the NIST website to correct your computer clock time as needed. It is located at http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/service/its.htm

The NIST runs an atomic clock in Fort Collins, CO, so that is about as accurate as you are going to get. NIST are the same folks who run WWV, the time station.

The utility can be used to update when ever you request it to or it can be set to update automatically at intervals.

[dennisw]

Computer clock? I will bet that you have to adjust the clock in the BIOS. When the clock in the BIOS is too far off from what you see in your Windows computer screen, you will have trouble adjusting the clock there.

Has been my experience