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The thread discusses a persistent issue with the Windows Time service failing to start automatically at boot, despite various troubleshooting attempts including permission checks and changing service settings. The original poster has tried multiple solutions and is seeking further ideas. A respondent suggests creating a scheduled task as a more direct workaround, implying that the problem may be complex or unresolved. Overall, the sentiment reflects frustration but offers alternative approaches.
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RodBarnes

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I've done a lot of searching on this issue, found several articles, tried some solutions: Nothing works. The Windows Time service just fails to start at boot. It doesn't produce an error in the event logs; it just fails to start. But I can manually start it from Services. Or I can manually run the CMD program mentioned below and it starts without error.

Suggestions from other articles which have made no difference:
  • Confirmed the permissions on the W32TIME keys in regedit.
  • Changed the logon from "Local Service" to "NT AUTHORITY\Local Service".
  • Changed it from Manual to Automatic start.

My own ideas:
  • Edited the Recovery settings to add a 3rd step to run a CMD program that does "sc start W32TIME".
  • Added a short-cut to that same CMD program in the Startup folder (which is set to run as admin).

Other ideas?
 

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Did you try creating a scheduled task for it? None of these workarounds should be necessary but if you can't find the cause, just try a bigger hammer.
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Did you try creating a scheduled task for it? None of these workarounds should be necessary but if you can't find the cause, just try a bigger hammer.
 

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