I am having the same problem, and switching servers does not do the trick
for me. Running standard windows firewall (anti-virus fully disabled) so
that should not be the problem. Win XP with latest updates.
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"Nightowl" <owl@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
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> David, you just posted this half an hour ago in your second thread and I
> just replied to it. . . I know it's frustrating when you're waiting for an
> answer, but it's really better to stick to one thread.
>
> Never mind. . .
>
> I think the point of directing you to that Microsoft article was to have
> you try some other time servers. Did you? (If you're not sure how, you
> just go to Control Panel | Date and Time |Internet Time, click the server
> name box to highlight it and type in the name of the new server. Then
> click Update Now and see if it works :-)
>
>
> David Black <DavidBlack@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on Mon, 16 Apr
> 2007:
>
>>When I try to sync my clock I get the following message: An error
>>occurred
>>while Windows was synchronizing with time.windows.com. The time sample
>>was
>>rejected because: The peer's stratum is less than the host's stratum.
>>
>>The first response I got was due to many problems with that server,
>>"time.windows.com" was always the first thing to be changed on my WinXP
>>systems. See if this article helps "A list of the Simple Network Time
>>Protocol (SNTP) time servers that are available on the Internet"
>>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/262680. When I went to that web page
>>there
>>was only one site http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ntp.html where you could
>>download anything that might correct the problem. After downloading
>>Windows
>>could not open the downloaded file, so it was of no help.
>>
>>The second response I got was Install *both* updates if not already done:
>>
>>1. "Update for Windows XP (KB931836)"
>>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...g=en&FamilyID=
>>66f1420c-df2d-400b-a8a9-ef9061a9a3ca
>>
>>2. "Update for Windows XP (KB932590)"
>>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...g=en&FamilyID=
>>1b38b995-a6f2-4703-95fc-f504ef4e4f39
>>
>>I had previously downloaded both of the above updates and still had the
>>problem. I would appreciate any help in getting this issue resolved.
>>
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