(Reposting because I accidentally posted in the wrong forum initially - sorry about that)
I know this has been addressed many times before, and believe me, I've done my part in scouring the forums for help.
Before I list the symptoms, I'm running windows 7, all the way up to date. I'm not running a server, but I cannot get it to sync. I just moved from the states to Germany and after I edited my time to reflect the correct time (didn't even think to use the updater) I've nothing but problems. Before anyone asks, I've followed these steps thus far in cmd:
pushd %SystemRoot%\system32
.\net stop w32time
.\w32tm/unregister
.\w32tm/register
.\sc config w32time type= own
.\net start w32time
.\w32tm/config /update /manualpeerlist:"0.pool.ntp.org,1.pool.ntp.org,2.pool.ntp.org,3.pool.ntp.org",0x8/syncfromflags:MANUAL /reliable:yes
.\w32tm/resync
popd
Basically, after everything I do, I'm getting access denied. Running through the steps typically looks like this:
1) net stop - works fine, time stops
2) /unregister - sometimes unregisters, sometimes access denied (even after multiple entries) - in either event, I move onto step 3
3) /register - usually in both above instances, /register does it's work and registers anyway.
4) type = own - almost always works, command successful.
5)net start - starts up just fine
6) reliable:yes - command "successful"
7) /resync - access denied :(
I've done every other suggestion in every forum I could find spread across many hours of fumbling around. I've restarted the computer a thousand times, trying the steps at varying intervals, trying to see if something will stick. There have been
times where after /register step, when I've started up, it's been missing and I have to fumble for a while just to get it back, then restart again for it to do anything.
On an important note:
I'm fairly certain that the reason why the initial sync couldn't complete is due to the wifi I'm currently connected to. I'm in a very internet limited area right now and I only have access to the free wifi available in my lodging - which is locked to the teeth. Just about every reasonable port is blocked and it appears that their NTP server won't allow automatic updating. I finally have access to the internet via my smartphone running a hotspot (limited internet, but I don't imagine it takes much to sync), which brings me around, again, to the current problem: even while connected to the hotspot which has no blocks, even a manual update/resync is still access denied. I used Microsoft's time reg key repair utility already, so I'm really at a loss for what the problem is.
Additional bits of misc info, in case it helps with security permissions:
As I'm currently running Windows 7 Basic, or whatever the basic model is, I'm not allowed to set access permissions to various accounts I've made on the computer, so in an attempt to circumvent a rootkit from being installed, I've renamed the Administrator account to something else - not sure if that would effect anything or not.
I have UAC disabled.
And I also disabled all the profiles on my firewall during the test, just to make sure that it wasn't on my own firewall's end (would have been humorous at this point if it was).
Any help is much appreciated, Thanks!