anneb2

All the above solutions still did not work for me. The policies were all set to "not configured". I tried to set them to "disabled", rebooted the machine, reset them to "not configured", rebooted, but to no avail. Finally I found that policies get stored in the registry as well. After renaming the following keys in : \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\POLICIES\MICROSOFT\W32TIME\ CONFIG to _CONFIG PARAMETERS to _PARAMETERS TIMEPROVIDERS to _TIMEPROVIDERS and restarting w32time, at last w32tm started reading the normal - documented - registry settings and this solved the problem for me as well. ( 8 hours wasted thanks to policy settings that do not appear in the policy editor or did I look in the wrong place?)