w32tm does not exist as an installed service

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I've been having trouble with the time on my Windows 10 PC. I've googled several different solutions. The first one I tried said to do a

w32tm /unregister
w32tm /register

When I did the second command, it said something like "Service has been marked for deletion".

Now if I do anything involving w32tm or W32Time, I get some variant of "The specified service does not exist as an installed service".

How do I re-install the time service without re-installing Windows?

daveh551

Posted 2017-08-02T11:17:07.510

Reputation: 811

Do you have an application running that locks the Service Manager? Stuff like Process Explorer. – Daniel B – 2017-08-02T11:30:11.590

Have you tried rebooting then running those commands again? – I say Reinstate Monica – 2017-08-02T12:12:32.960

Daniel B - I am not running any thing that locks the service manager that I know of (definitely not Process Explorer). I did install CrashPlan about a month ago. – daveh551 – 2017-08-02T20:37:06.583

Twisty - I tried running commands again, but I have not tried rebooting. I'll do that as soon as I finish what I'm doing. Thanks for the suggestion. – daveh551 – 2017-08-02T20:37:51.517

Twisty - that seems to have done it. I rebooted, re-ran the "w3tm /register" command, and did a "net start w32time". It seems to be running again. Thanks for your help. – daveh551 – 2017-08-03T10:14:55.343

Answers

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Yes, this service is not found in "Turn Windows features on & off" or any other place. But the command you gave:

w32tm /register

Is the actual way to install it (using a command prompt which was Run as Administrator). Sometimes you need a reboot to put things in order, but I actually just waited a while without rebooting. Here is my sequence of commands showing that it works:

(base) C:\WINDOWS\system32>w32tm /config /update
The following error occurred: The specified service does not exist as an installed service. (0x80070424)

(base) C:\WINDOWS\system32>w32tm /register
W32Time successfully registered.

(base) C:\WINDOWS\system32>w32tm /query /source
The following error occurred: The service has not been started. (0x80070426)

(base) C:\WINDOWS\system32>net start w32time
The Windows Time service is starting.
The Windows Time service was started successfully.

(base) C:\WINDOWS\system32>w32tm /query /source
Local CMOS Clock

Tomasz Gandor

Posted 2017-08-02T11:17:07.510

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