Gaming Windows XP Clock Issues

[sonknuck23]

I'm running WinXP Home, and the clock date and time settings keep opening by itself. I can't stop it, tried resetting, and checked on google; No results.

Any ideas?!?

 

[MeowTheMouse]

thats kinda weird o.o"
what do you mean by opening by it self ??
they just pop up ?

 

[sonknuck23]

Yeah. I'll type and it'll just show the hourglass, stop everything I'm doing, and pop up. Worst part is, sometimes it doesn't happen at all. Like right now, it was happening 5 mins ago, and now it's good?! Anyway. It's weird.

 

[MeowTheMouse]

You can try system restore to a date that this didn't use to happen ? >

 

[CannonFoddr]

Before you do that though - have you checked for viruses/malware etc ??

 

[tk_saturn]

There's an easy way of doing it, rename timedate.cpl which is probably in the c:\windows\system32 directory to something else like xxx.cpl. If you want to adjust the time/date, you will then have to type xxx.cpl into the start menu => run box.

You could also open the registry editor and do a search for timedate.cpl, so you can see if there are any references to a program causing it to open.