Windows 10 set time automatically grayed out

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_{Tuesday, May 10, 2016 10:06 AM | 1 vote}

HI,

we are having a problem here that the setting "set time automatically" is grayed out and we need to set it to 2017 to test somethings. I have looked on google and found this question on the technet forum but this didn help https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/af0272b3-40e4-4d57-900a-4acfe7c8823e/set-time-automatically-option-grayed-out?forum=win10itprogeneral. and there is no activitie on that question other than people having the same problem as me.

So I have check the local GPO and the group policies on the server, but there they are not defined. I have enabled them and granted the user permission and restarted there computer + using gpupdate /force after the first try. But with no luck.

Does anyone else has a solution for this problem?

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_{Wednesday, May 11, 2016 11:45 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Hi theduchtwesley,

You are in domain network environment, right?

Does this issue occur on all of machines in your domain?

First of all, we need verify if there is a red message ”Some setting are managed by your organization” on setting panel when you try to turn off “Set time actomatically”.

This message indicates that this setting is already changed by Group Policy, we cannot change it manually.

We could run the “gpresult /z >policy.txt” command to export all available information about Group Policy, then verify if there is any Windows time related group policy applied.

For example,

If there is no this message in setting panel, it could be caused by damaged registry keys.

We could modify the related registry value to change it back.

To turn off “set time automatically”:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\W32Time

“Start”=dword:000000004

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\W32Time\Parameters

“Type”=”NoSync”

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet\W32Time

“Start”=dword:000000004

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet\W32Time\Parameters

“Type”=”NoSync”

Then reboot the machine to apply registry settings.

Please backup the registry key before we made any modifications to it.

Best regards

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_{Wednesday, August 17, 2016 8:51 AM}

Beter to do the following:

Open command prompt

w32tm /config /SyncFromFlags:NO

When the W10 computer is in a domain this is grayed out by default and the time is synchronised with the domain controller. This is for Keberos authentication.