NetTime is designed to be
unobtrusive. Most of the time, all you will see is an icon on your system
tray. |
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You can run NetTime as a regular
application, as an NT service, or as a Win95/98 pseudo-service. The
installer takes care of setting up whichever you decide you want. When
NetTime runs as a service, you can still load the system tray icon, which
connects to the service through shared memory. Either way, clicking on the
icon gets you a quick view of NetTime's current status: |
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When you click on Settings, or
when you first install NetTime, you can configure which time servers
you want to connect to as well as various other settings. This is what the
options screen looks like: |
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NetTime comes preloaded with a
list of about 150 public NTP servers. This list is configurable through an
INI file. You can type the name of whatever server you want, or you can
click the "Find..." button to pick a server from the list. This
is the screen from which you select a server: |
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But you don't have to use this
screen at all if you don't want to. Your other choice is to click
"Auto-Configure" which will check all servers on the list for
availability, network lag time, and accuracy, like so: |
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