I have a small Win 10 laptop that I got a few years ago to use for
TurboTax when Intuit quit running on Win 7. I occasionally use it for
video conferences too. Today I noticed that it was set to the wrong time
zone so I tried to set it to the proper one.

I found my way to the place to change it by right click on the date-time
on the tool bar and selecting "adjust date/time". Though a "Time zone"
line was displayed, it was 1) grayed out and 2) non responsive to the
mouse. I tried turning off "Set time automatically" and noted that "set
time zone automatically" was off. The former could be toggled the latter
could not. No combination allowed changing "Time zone".

Obvious question: How do I set the time zone for this laptop?
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On 5/20/2024 11:18 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:

Jeff Barnett wrote:

I have a small Win 10 laptop that I got a few years ago to use for
TurboTax when Intuit quit running on Win 7. I occasionally use it for
video conferences too. Today I noticed that it was set to the wrong
time zone so I tried to set it to the proper one.

I found my way to the place to change it by right click on the
date-time on the tool bar and selecting "adjust date/time". Though a
"Time zone" line was displayed, it was 1) grayed out and 2) non
responsive to the mouse. I tried turning off "Set time automatically"
and noted that "set time zone automatically" was off. The former could
be toggled the latter could not. No combination allowed changing "Time
zone".

Obvious question: How do I set the time zone for this laptop?

Go to Control Panel, Date and Time; and see if you can change things there. If you encounter the same problems, come back to us and we'll guide you further.

Thank you. Fixed now.

I must say, though, this is the kind of nonsense that so puts so many of
us off with Microsoft. In a few seconds of noting a problem with the
clock (while testing video link) I find my way to a place that shows the incorrect setting in the form of a click-and-use menu; a menu that is
grayed out and the one that Help takes me to also.
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Jeff Barnett

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Jeff Barnett wrote:

I have a small Win 10 laptop that I got a few years ago to use for
TurboTax when Intuit quit running on Win 7. I occasionally use it for
video conferences too. Today I noticed that it was set to the wrong time
zone so I tried to set it to the proper one.

I found my way to the place to change it by right click on the date-time
on the tool bar and selecting "adjust date/time". Though a "Time zone"
line was displayed, it was 1) grayed out and 2) non responsive to the
mouse. I tried turning off "Set time automatically" and noted that "set
time zone automatically" was off. The former could be toggled the latter could not. No combination allowed changing "Time zone".

Obvious question: How do I set the time zone for this laptop?

Go to Control Panel, Date and Time; and see if you can change things there.
If you encounter the same problems, come back to us and we'll guide you further.

Ed

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On Mon, 20 May 2024 11:09:22 -0600, Jeff Barnett wrote:

I have a small Win 10 laptop that I got a few years ago to use for
TurboTax when Intuit quit running on Win 7. I occasionally use it for
video conferences too. Today I noticed that it was set to the wrong time
zone so I tried to set it to the proper one.

I found my way to the place to change it by right click on the date-time
on the tool bar and selecting "adjust date/time". Though a "Time zone"
line was displayed, it was 1) grayed out and 2) non responsive to the
mouse. I tried turning off "Set time automatically" and noted that "set
time zone automatically" was off. The former could be toggled the latter could not. No combination allowed changing "Time zone".

Obvious question: How do I set the time zone for this laptop?

For fingerprinting reasons, I use an old batch script posted by, I think, Herbert Kleebauer long ago to this newsgroup (or to the batch newsgroup).

All it does is set the timezone randomly to any timezone using tzutil.
Here's an example line to set the time zone to "Arabic Time Zone".

REM (UTC+03:00) Baghdad
tzutil.exe /s "Arabic Standard Time"

Let me look for the script though... ok... I think I found it.

@echo off
rem tzrandom.bat randomly sets the Windows system timezone
rem by Herbert Kleebauer, 20200415, alt.msdos.batch
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

:loop
set /a n=137*%random%/32768*3+1
for /f "tokens=*" %%i in ('tzutil /l^|more +%n%') do set a=%%i& goto :l1
:l1
echo.
echo.
echo setting time zone to: %a%
tzutil.exe /s "%a%"

:: wait 6-24h
set /a n=20864+(%random%*2)
set /a h=%n%/3600
set /a m=(n-(%h%*3600))/60
echo waiting %h% hours, %m% minutes
timeout %n%
goto :loop

exit 0

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On 5/20/24 10:09 AM, Jeff Barnett wrote:

I have a small Win 10 laptop that I got a few years ago to use for
TurboTax when Intuit quit running on Win 7.

If that becomes a problem again try using TurboTax in a browser. I've been
doing that for years and it works on most any OS. Most recently I used this
Amazon Fire HD10 tablet (that I'm now posting with) to do a little income
tax work when on a trip. Perhaps not the most convenient but it worked...

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On 5/20/2024 11:53 AM, AJL wrote:

On 5/20/24 10:09 AM, Jeff Barnett wrote:

I have a small Win 10 laptop that I got a few years ago to use for
TurboTax when Intuit quit running on Win 7.

If that becomes a problem again try using TurboTax in a browser. I've been doing that for years and it works on most any OS. Most recently I used this Amazon Fire HD10 tablet (that I'm now posting with) to do a little income
tax work when on a trip. Perhaps not the most convenient but it worked...

I do use it in a browser. Intuit quit supporting Win 7 years ago.
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Jeff Barnett

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On 5/20/24 02:51 PM, Jeff Barnett wrote:

On 5/20/2024 11:53 AM, AJL wrote:

On 5/20/24 10:09 AM, Jeff Barnett wrote:

I have a small Win 10 laptop that I got a few years ago to use for TurboTax when Intuit quit
running on Win 7.

If that becomes a problem again try using TurboTax in a browser. I've been >> doing that for years and it works on most any OS. Most recently I used this >> Amazon Fire HD10 tablet (that I'm now posting with) to do a little income
tax work when on a trip. Perhaps not the most convenient but it worked...

I do use it in a browser. Intuit quit supporting Win 7 years ago.

Where are your data files stored?

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Al

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On 5/20/2024 2:10 PM, Big Al wrote:

On 5/20/24 02:51 PM, Jeff Barnett wrote:

On 5/20/2024 11:53 AM, AJL wrote:

On 5/20/24 10:09 AM, Jeff Barnett wrote:

I have a small Win 10 laptop that I got a few years ago to use for
TurboTax when Intuit quit running on Win 7.

If that becomes a problem again try using TurboTax in a browser. I've
been
doing that for years and it works on most any OS. Most recently I
used this
Amazon Fire HD10 tablet (that I'm now posting with) to do a little
income
tax work when on a trip. Perhaps not the most convenient but it
worked...

I do use it in a browser. Intuit quit supporting Win 7 years ago.

Where are your data files stored?

On my computer while doing and computing. Of course those files are
cloned when I efile.

I presume your question was diagnostic to see if I actually used my
computer as other than a smart terminal or x-window?
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Jeff Barnett

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Jeff Barnett wrote:

On 5/20/2024 11:53 AM, AJL wrote:

On 5/20/24 10:09 AM, Jeff Barnett wrote:

I have a small Win 10 laptop that I got a few years ago to use for
TurboTax when Intuit quit running on Win 7.

[snip]

Curious. I continue to use Intuit's Quickbooks Pro 2015 on Windows 7
Pro today. This is just for personal accounting now - so I don't need
payroll or other support.

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Graham J

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On 5/20/24 04:34 PM, Jeff Barnett wrote:

On 5/20/2024 2:10 PM, Big Al wrote:

On 5/20/24 02:51 PM, Jeff Barnett wrote:

On 5/20/2024 11:53 AM, AJL wrote:

On 5/20/24 10:09 AM, Jeff Barnett wrote:

I have a small Win 10 laptop that I got a few years ago to use for TurboTax when Intuit quit
running on Win 7.

If that becomes a problem again try using TurboTax in a browser. I've been >>>> doing that for years and it works on most any OS. Most recently I used this
Amazon Fire HD10 tablet (that I'm now posting with) to do a little income >>>> tax work when on a trip. Perhaps not the most convenient but it worked... >>>>

I do use it in a browser. Intuit quit supporting Win 7 years ago.

Where are your data files stored?

On my computer while doing and computing. Of course those files are cloned when I efile.

I presume your question was diagnostic to see if I actually used my computer as other than a smart
terminal or x-window?

Nope, just curious if the cloud work was on cloud files or local files.

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Linux Mint 21.3, Cinnamon 6.0.4, Kernel 5.15.0-107-generic
Al

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