windows Time service does not exist (error1060)

For the last month, I have been struggling with the time of my PC. at first, the time did not update regurarly with the internet service. after some searching, I created a batch program that if ran in administrator, calibrated the time by re-establishing the connection with windows.time. In order to prevent the pc’s clock from wandering off, every 30 minutes, the service was restarted and thus reconnected.

:loop
net stop w32time
w32tm /unregister
w32tm /register
net start w32time
w32tm /resync
timeout /t 1800
goto loop

Every time I started the PC, I had to start the batch script, as the time did not keep running if the pc was turned off.

Yesterday, the batch script gave multiple errors:

1. w32tm /register: The following error occurred: The specified service has been marked for deletion. (0x80070430)

2. w32tm /resync: The following error occurred: The specified service does not exist as an installed service. (0x80070424)

Opened the services program, searched for Windows Time and found the following:

Name: Windows Time

Description: [Empty] (should not be empty)

Startup Type: [Empty] (shouldnt be empty)

Log On As: Local System

If I right clicked the services and pressed Properties, it gives the this message: Windows was unable to open service Windows Time for reading on Local Computer. Error 1060: the specified service does not exist as an installed service.

after searching online for a solution, I tried the command line sfc / scannow, gave no result (Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations).

Lastly, I checked if the service exists in the Registry Editor, and found it in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\w32time, with 5 subfolders of which 3 contain more folders (and of course registry values, but I do not know if these are correct).

To wrap it up, System specs:

CPU: i7-6700 (non K)

Motherboard: MSI H170 Gaming M3

RAM: 16GB DDR4 at 2133MHz

Windows runs from an 500GB SSD

PSU: Corsair 860i

Wifi: TPlink T9E (PCI wifi card).

Hope anyone knows how to resolve this problem, and if more information is needed, feel free to ask.

Thanks in advance,

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We would like to know more about this concern, please provide the following information:

• Is this your first time to encounter this concern?
• Did you make any changes to your computer’s configuration prior to the issue?
• What are the troubleshooting steps have your tried so far?

In the meant time, let’s run System File Checker scan and DISM command at the same time.

System File Checker is a Windows utility that allow users to scan for and restore corruptions in Windows system files. Follow these steps for instructions:

1. Open Command Prompt (Admin).
2. Type this sfc /scannow and hit Enter.

If SFC did not find any violation, it’s still a agood idea to run DISM Restorehealth. For instructions, please follow these steps:

1. Open Command Prompt (Admin).
2. Type this Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth and hit Enter.

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The first time i noticed this issue, I went to services.msc, and changed the startup type (was set to manual, altered it to automatic). I also switched time server a couple times (between time.windows and time.google). with the batch program I got it working for awhile, although I had to manually toggle the setting «Set time automatically» in the Date & Time dialog if the time difference was to big. the first time i encountered this issue was yesterday, at this moment, the clock in the PC is not working anymore (stuck at 22:01, while it is currently 13:28)

Results from your suggestions:

>sfc /scannow

Beginning system scan. This process will take some time.

Beginning verification phase of system scan.

Verification 100% complete.

Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.

>Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool

Image Version: 10.0.15063.0

The source files could not be found

Use the «Source» option to specify the location of the files that are required to restore the feature. For more information on specifying a source location, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=243077.

The DISM log file can be found at C:\WINDOWS\Logs\DISM\dism.log

currently looking into the dism.log, I notice that most errors look like this:

2017-05-07 12:58:33, Error DISM DISM Driver Manager: PID=248 TID=13356 Error, file not found ‘oem27.inf’. — CDriverManager::OpenPackageByFile(hr:0x80070002)

But it the next line shows that it found the file in System32\DriverStore\FileRepository

However, I see that it runs into multiple errors at 2 moments, both 6 Errors after each other with the same messages:

Error DISM Package Manager: PID=3856 TID=2968 Failed finalizing changes. — CDISMPackageManager::Internal_Finalize(hr:0x800f081f)
Error DISM Package Manager: PID=3856 TID=2968 The source files could not be found; their location must be specified using the /source option to restore the feature. — GetCbsErrorMsg
Error DISM Package Manager: PID=3856 TID=2968 Failed processing package changes with session option CbsSessionOptionRepairStoreCorruption — CDISMPackageManager::RestoreHealth(hr:0x800f081f)
Error DISM Package Manager: PID=3856 TID=2968 The source files could not be found; their location must be specified using the /source option to restore the feature. — GetCbsErrorMsg
Error DISM Package Manager: PID=3856 TID=2968 Failed to restore the image health. — CPackageManagerCLIHandler::ProcessCmdLine_CleanupImage(hr:0x800f081f)
Error DISM Package Manager: PID=3856 TID=2968 Failed while processing command cleanup-image. — CPackageManagerCLIHandler::ExecuteCmdLine(hr:0x800f081f)

The other one looks the same, but with PID = 15844 and TID = 12460. messages refer to what the command prompt printed too.

so it looks like I need somekind of source, how does this work?

Windows Time Service not working. Time Synchronization fails with error

We have already seen how to change the Windows Internet Time Update Interval. But maybe your Windows Time is wrong and not synchronizing – or maybe you are unable to configure your Windows Internet time settings to automatically synchronize with an Internet time server, like say, time.windows.com. While you may be able to manually synchronize the time, by clicking on Update now, you may find that it just does not do so automatically.

Before we start troubleshooting this issue, it would be a good idea to run the System File Checker. To do so, you have to type sfc /scannow in an elevated CMD and hit Enter. Wait for a while and when the job is completed, restart your Windows computer. Once you have done this, we can move forward to try to troubleshoot the Windows Time synchronization problem.

Windows Time synchronization not working

To change your Time settings, you would click on the Time, on the right side of the taskbar and select date and time settings. The synchronization settings are under the Internet Time tab.

The Windows Time service is not working

If your Windows 10 Clock Time is wrong, the first thing to do is to find out if your Windows Time service is set on Automatic and Started, else you may see the error message: The Windows Time service is not running.

To do so, type services.msc in Start Search and hit Enter. In Services Manager, navigate to Windows Time service and double-click on it.

Check and see if it is Started and set on Automatic. If not, change the startup type to Automatic and click on Apply/OK.

If this works, great, Start the service and exit. This should be the end of your problems. If not, and you get error messages – read on!

Windows Time service fails to start with Error 1079

If you find that the Windows Time service fails to start with Error 1079, you may want to ensure that the service is being started by the Local System account instead of by the Local Service account (NT AUTHORITY\LocalService). More details on this here.

The system cannot find the path specified

You get an error box: The system cannot find the path specified.

In such a case, you may want to re-register dll file. The concerned dll file here is w3time.dll. To do so, open a command prompt as an Administrator, type regsvr32 w32time.dll and hit Enter.

If this works, fine, else do you still get this message?

The module w32time.dll was loaded but the call to DllRegisterServer failed with the error code 0x80070003

You may then next also want to register the concerned Windows Time file which is named as W32tm.exe and see if this helps!

W32tm.exe, located in the System32 folder, is used to configure Windows Time service settings. It can also be used to diagnose problems with the time service. W32tm.exe is the preferred command line tool for configuring, monitoring, or troubleshooting the Windows Time service. You can check out all its parameters here at TechNet.

We will use the /register parameter. This parameter, when run for W32tm.exe, registers the time service to run as a service and adds the default configuration to the registry.

To do so, in an elevated command prompt, type these commands one after the other and hit Enter:

Force Windows to sync Time using CMD

You can also force Windows to sync Time using W32tm.exe. W32tm.exe is a command prompt line used to configure, monitor or troubleshoot the Windows Time Service in Windows 10 PC.

To do this, open an elevated command prompt and type the following commands one after the other:

Reboot your computer and see if it has helped.

See if this helps resolve your issue… if not … sigh … you may again get a message while registering w32tm.exe:

The following error occurred: The system cannot find the path specified. (0x80070003)

Do ensure that you are signed in as an administrator and opened the command prompt as an administrator – but you may get the error, even if you have complied with these requirements.

In such an eventuality, you will have to open your Registry Editor.

Once you have opened regedit, navigate to the following registry key:

Now in the right pane right-click on ImagePath and select Modify. Here in the Value data box, make sure that the value is:

Click OK and exit.

Hope something helps!

If nothing helps, you, use another Time Server, make use of some free Time synchronization software or then try to repair/reset/reinstall Windows and see if it helps you. If you do not want to consider this last option, The only practical advice I can give you is that you uncheck the Synchronize with an Internet time server box, set the time manually and then check on it once in a while!

Date: August 4, 2019 Tags: Time, Troubleshoot

Windows time service error

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I have been having problems with the time service on my windows 2008 server from day one. Now I am getting:

System error 1290 has occurred.

The service start failed since one or more services in the same process have an incompatible service SID type setting. A service with restricted service SID type can only coexist in the same process with other services with a restricted SID type. If the service SID type for this service was just configured, the hosting process must be restarted in order to start this service.

This occured after I changed the service to Local System instead of Local Service. It complained that it wasn’t allowed to run as Local System. So I unregistered the dll and registered. The setting was restored to Local Service, but now I am getting this error message and am hesitant to just blindly reboot. I have looked for other articles on this and they claim to adjust the tapisrv image path from tapisrv to NetworkService. If I was on a client machine I would do it, but this is the Operation Master server for everything.

I tried to restart most services, but it still didn’t help.

Thank you for any assistance you can offer.