Disable system time change

[bulletrick]

Hello everyone!


Is it possible to disable the changing of system time even for administrators? How?

Thanks!

[MartinLiss]

Why do you need to do that?

[bulletrick]

Why do you need to do that?

Hi. This is because we currently have a system here to which the system time of the client PC's are very important.

However, users tend to change it without permission and the system as of now needs to run in an Administrator account.

Thank you very much!

[Lord Orwell]

You can have an administrator account with a secure password so users can't use it. You should never use administrator account for day-to-day usage (although i am a hypocrite but i am the only user)
Every user should be in a custom "groups". Set this group up to give them any permission you want but lock the time change out. Make sure it's the only group they are in. Regular users should NEVER have admin privelages. They can mess up stuff on accident and not even know they did it.

[Lord Orwell]

Oh, and it is impossible to disable anything for administrators. How would you enable it again?
You can even view encrypted files of ANY user, even other admins from an administrator account.

[bulletrick]

Oh, and it is impossible to disable anything for administrators. How would you enable it again?
You can even view encrypted files of ANY user, even other admins from an administrator account.

Actually, we have downloaded a program that does that even to Admin (Time Lock 4.0).

There is a password for this program so that if there is attempt to change time, it will prompt for it.

[bulletrick]

You can have an administrator account with a secure password so users can't use it. You should never use administrator account for day-to-day usage (although i am a hypocrite but i am the only user)
Every user should be in a custom "groups". Set this group up to give them any permission you want but lock the time change out. Make sure it's the only group they are in. Regular users should NEVER have admin privelages. They can mess up stuff on accident and not even know they did it.

Actually, the system is not created by us but by a third party team and their requirements is to use an Admin account, so we have no choice.. ^_^

[Lord Orwell]

well that blows. An alternate method is to turn on Internet Time, where windows syncs up with an internet server. It's used to make all computers have EXACTLY the same time. Some people have problems with it though. But double-click on your clock and choose the internet tab.

[RobDog888]

Yes, its very easy to lock yourself out of a folder or anything that has security on it if you are not careful.

Use a Group Policy Object to prevent the tme change. Very easy to do it if this is on a Server.

[wolf99]

Our apps run on system with a network drive that we can run a batch file to retrieve and set the datetime before anytime the app uses the clock. find it very handy and it means no adjustment to settings is needed maunally.