Clock gadget

[micker377]

I have three clock "gadgets". One for me (California), one for my son in Alaska (one hour behind), and one for a friend back in S. Carolina (three hours ahead).
I noticed yesterday, that all three were suddenly on the same time!
I've tried redoing them, and other Clocks listed in "Gadgets". All clocks show only four possible settings: Current Computer time, UTC - 8, UTC +2 (Instanbul), and UTC +3 (Kalingrad).
Has anyone else noticed this? It seems to have occurred after the last MS update. (08-25-2011)

 

[linney]

There was a daylight saving update that came out a few days ago. I have Additional clocks set but there are no problems after the update and all the usual Time Zones appear in the dropdown listing.

Have you checked under another user profile to see if the problem just relates to your current profile?

 

[micker377]

I deleted the last MS update (the time one). Now the one clock, is down to one choice!
Tried a "System Restore", but it "Error" and wouldn't do a restore! I put the update back in, and gave up before I lost my last clock! <grin>

I am the lone user, and have no other profile to play with.
(Win 7 Professional)

 

[BadBigBen]

now that is definitely a strange behavior...

I was also about to suggest to remove the last update...

I don't have W7 at hand at the moment, until I get home from work that is, so I can't really take a look at it from that vantage point, but I have the feeling that the update did break something that can not be unbroken by deinstalling things... hmmm...

Ben
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[cmeagan656]

Tried a "System Restore", but it "Error" and wouldn't do a restore!

Did you check your clocks after the "failed" system restore? I've had the message appear saying that the system wasn't restored, but in reality it was restored with the exception of some antivirus related files.

Hope this helps.

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[DrB0b]

Do you have your 7 disc or a recovery disk? Have you tried running a sfc /scannow or chkdsk /r just to see if anything is found? Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the gadget?

"Silence is golden, duct tape is silver...

 

[stduc]

I am running Win 7 64 bit Ultimate. I have 3 clocks - 1 showing computer time and 2 showing different USA time zones. I installed the daylight saving update the other day. I have had no issues with the clocks and I just checked and they all show all time zones on the tools.

I would try uninstalling and re-installing the clock(s) as its only a gadget and anything trying anything else before re-installing the gadget seems a bit overkill to me.

 

[micker377]

Uninstalling, and reinstalling was the first thing I tried. I haven't tried SFC yet - saving that for when I get more time!

BTW, the reason for the slow responses to you all, is that I'm not getting email notifications, even though I have the "Notify" checked. This has been "normal" for over a year!

 

[micker377]

Update: just ran SFC - no problems (no help!)

 

[stduc]

Do you mean you ran SFC and it was no help?

If so, and if you think it worth it I would suggest the following in this order.

Run a good registry cleaner - there is a good free one from Auslogics for example.

If that doesn't fix it, create a new user - maybe it's a user profile issue.

If that doesn't fix it, try a repair re-install.

If that doesn't fix it - do a full re-install of the O/S - which seems a bit much to fix a clock - but hey!

Hopefully someone can come up with a better suggestion if the registry fix doesn't work.

 

[linney]

Create a new user if you want to eliminate a corrupt user profile as a cause.

When System Restore fails to complete due to some error in Normal Mode it might well succeed if run from Safe Mode.

In fact how is the clock in Safe Mode?

You can also run System Restore outside of the Windows environment via the Recovery options.

Using System Restore from the Vista Windows Recovery Environment (or Win 7).

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial142.html

 

[micker377]

stduc: I mean that SFC found no problems, and didn't help my clocks.
I use CCleaner, and "Eusing" registry cleaner all the time - no help for this.

linney: Haven't tried anything in Safe Mode yet. I gave up long ago on System Restore - I use ERUNT. Took my system back last week before the last MS updates - didn't change anything.

Repair-install seems a bit drastic for a freakin' clock! The main clock with MY time works OK. <grin>

 

[micker377]

In fact how is the clock in Safe Mode?

"Desktop Gadgets not available in Safe Mode".

 

[stduc]

have you tried creating a new user and seeing if all is well for that new user? if so you simply have a corrupt profile. In which case you need to create a third user which will become your new user account and copy your old files to it - see

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/fix-a-corrupted-user-profile.

Hopefully this will fix your problems, because, as you so rightly say, a repair install or a re-install is rather OTT and a repair wouldn't fix a corrupt profile anyway.


P.S.

email notifications aren't working for me now either!