Local time/System time

[Dickieboy]

I'm trying to network a printer wirlessly between a desktop and a laptop. Both have Windows 7 home premium 32 bit.

The Home group is set up correctly, the correct printer drivers are in situ.

Home group on the laptop is saying that the printer is available and can be installed.

I press the install button and jackshit happens.

I see that I can't access files on the desktop from the laptop but can vice versa

The trouble shooter identifies a 'network' problem - The system time and local time are different or words to that effect the actual time displayed on the bottom of the taskbar is the same on both machines as are the regional settings, wifi is working perfectly.

Can anyone help please, so far I have uninstalled and reinstalled the printer, deleted the home group and then set up the home group again neither of which has done anything bar waste time.

 

[Buttso]

time

the only thing I can thing of is system time refers to the time held by the motherboard which you can check by when the machine boots up, go into the BIOS setup, usually F2 or F8 or one of those keys

make sure the time is set correctly, then save changes and reboot, go into windows and check the time and region settings... do the same on the printer

try that and see if it works...

 

[turbine_2]

When you say 'regional settings' do you mean the timezone the clock is on or the regional settings about keyboard, etc. Both could be saying 13:00 but one could be set to GMT and the other to Pacific Standard. To get the timezone I think it's double click on the clock but I'm away from my Windows 7 machine at the moment so I can't be sure.

 

[David Lee]

I would not bother asking about time on here,

It's 13.50hrs and this post will show nearly 2hours later when I finalise it

 

[Dickieboy]

the only thing I can thing of is system time refers to the time held by the motherboard which you can check by when the machine boots up, go into the BIOS setup, usually F2 or F8 or one of those keys

make sure the time is set correctly, then save changes and reboot, go into windows and check the time and region settings... do the same on the printer

try that and see if it works...

Thanks for your reply, the time in the bios settings is exactly same as in windows, I can't actually find a 'time' setting on the printer.

When you say 'regional settings' do you mean the timezone the clock is on or the regional settings about keyboard, etc. Both could be saying 13:00 but one could be set to GMT and the other to Pacific Standard. To get the timezone I think it's double click on the clock but I'm away from my Windows 7 machine at the moment so I can't be sure.

The regional time settings are identical on both machines, on win 7 there isn't a GMT it's 'UTC' whatever that might be.

I would not bother asking about time on here,

It's 13.50hrs and this post will show nearly 2hours later when I finalise it

Another 2 hours and I might very well have the answer to 'Can laptops fly?'

 

[Buttso]

time

ok ...

did you have a look in the Windows event logs in the control panel to see is there anything in there you can use to find the problem?

if you do see something in there that might help

use the google microsoft specific search to find more information

that search is http://www.google.com/microsoft

or use the event ID database..

http://www.eventid.net/