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When testing your PC, you might sometimes want to see what happens over a period of time. Will your backup start when it should, for instance? Is your antivirus launcher working correctly? Will your alarm pop up? When will that trial version expire, and what happens when it does?<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re only looking to test just one of these actions, then manually resetting your system\u2019s clock will probably be enough. But when your testing becomes more involved — you want to check out a program which adjusts screen brightness depending on the time of day, for instance — then you\u2019ll benefit from a more automated approach. And there\u2019s no simpler way to get this than with\u00a0Accelerify<\/a>.<\/p>\n The program is a tiny (7.26KB download) console-based tool which increments your PC clock at regular intervals — by default, moving it on an hour every 10 seconds — so making time seem to pass more quickly while you just monitor what\u2019s happening; a very straightforward approach.<\/p>\n It\u2019s easy to use, too. Launch the program from Explorer as an Administrator (right-click, select Run as Administrator) and it\u2019ll pop up in a console window, and immediately begin incrementing your clock. You can return to your desktop, launch a program or otherwise monitor your system. And when you\u2019re done, return to Accelerify, press a key, and the program will stop its work, restore your original time and close down.<\/p>\n If the default interval and increment don\u2019t suit your needs, then that can be adjusted via command line switches. And so you could choose to step forward 30 minutes every 2 seconds, 3 hours every 15 seconds, or whatever you like (accelerify_Readme.txt has the details).<\/p>\n Be careful, though. We found that if we incremented the clock too rapidly — an hour every second, for instance — then some scheduled applications missed their cue, and didn\u2019t pop up when we expected.<\/p>\n And you also need to be sure that you close the program via the approved, \u201cpress any key\u201d route. If you just close the window then your clock will be left at its new setting, and you\u2019ll have to restore the correct time yourself (in Windows 7, right-click the clock, select \u201cAdjust date\/time\u201d > Internet Time > Change Settings > Update now).<\/p>\n Accelerify<\/a>\u00a0isn\u2019t exactly a tool you\u2019ll use every day, then, but if you\u2019re testing anything based on time then it could be very useful. Take a look.<\/p>\n Photo Credit:<\/strong> Sukharevskyy Dmytro (nevodka)<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n When testing your PC, you might sometimes want to see what happens over a period of time. Will your backup start when it should, for instance? Is your antivirus launcher working correctly? Will your alarm pop up? When will that trial version expire, and what happens when it does? If you\u2019re only looking to test […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/img><\/a>
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