Total time is wrong for Microsoft Solitaire Event Challenges

I'm afraid there really is no answer and no forthcoming solution from Microsoft in the near future. I've begun to focus more on the daily challenges and the Star Club where you can take your time and not have to compete with anyone but yourself. I'll play the tournament with the knowledge that my time can be completely wrong at times just to see how many I can complete, because completion can be worth more than time in certain cases. If one has a higher score with a high time, one can still rank above those with a lower score.  I realize this is cold comfort and it's a shame to have such a nice little pastime completely messed up, but I also play some other games online that take the pressure off of this one. If you are interested, try searching the internet for other solitaire games.  I also like one Mah-Johngg game that does not have a timer. that's at http://www.addictinggames.com/puzzle-games/mahjongg.jsp. you might need adobe flash for it but that's all. and they are not always easily solved regardless of what they are titled, but it is a meditative sport for me in any case.

 I have to limit my stress over one game because it doesn't help me relax, which is the reason why I play online games in the first place.  diamond solitaire is seriously flawed and no one at Microsoft cares, that's all I can say. I hope that you feel better down the line.  So when the game asks me if I want to see my status from playing the High Road tournament today I may just say NO. because it added 7 hours to my time while I was busy living my life. <3

cheers,

M Gettinger

@melissa use windows search type in 'powershell' it's a spiffed up DOS screen, where commands can be typed

@mariann You tried & that did not help? How did you test?  I thought that time issue was unique to event challenges. 

alt F4 close timer problems

"X" upper right hand corner timer problems

"X" beneath upper right "X", for that game/event, does that work?????????

Does this game have a dedicated 'forum', to resolve issues, if this is it I'm surprised at the lack of moderator input.

After thought, worth trying:

At Break time close game, reboot, or "poweroff" machine, start machine after break

After closing game run free ccleaner > applications > 'tick' 'game explorer'   mine is currently not ticked, wait hour or two, & see if time was added.

testing only

Maybe this will help: Not sure

Thank you.

It didn't solve my problem, but at least - now I know it's not me (I've been down and sad, angry...'cause it happens when - finally I'm sure, that NOW the problem is over.) It happened a few times during 2018, too.

Latest game: I had a time that showed 1.32.00 (or something like that), I logged out - (I had learned my lesson, I thought), closed the pc entirely and went away for about 3 hours.

When I returned the game had added 3 hours to my game.......what a knock in the head....and heart!

.....

Thank you, Rick_726,

because you describe the problem exactly how it is.

What a release..... ;)

I will still play, but not with a happy face (last time I ended up with stommach-pain because of this frustating strange timer-issue....thinking it was me, going nuts.

I don't have the great pc-knowledge and I don't know how to fix it (this powershell-thingy that was mentioned as a suggestion how to solve the problem).

I will wait and see.

Stay put on the chair and play....but damn hard to sit here during all 30 games (oh well, sometimes 20 and 16), without a break.

Happy playing!

Kindest regards, 

M. Dupont

what is Powershell?

Microsoft solitaire event timer bug

Lately while playing Microsoft Solitaire Events, the timer keeps running when I take a break from the game. Before taking a break I always finish whatever game I'm playing, and hit the "back" button to go back to the Solitaire home screen. Today I played for 29 minutes, took a break for about 3 hours, and came back and played one game that took 4 minutes. I checked my time after that game, it was 3 hours and 33 minutes. The timer was running the entire time of my break. This doesn't always happen, but it's happened about 4 times over the past few weeks. It's really disheartening to invest time in an event and have this happen. Please fix!

Question Info

Last updated January 17, 2019 Views 8 Applies to:

• Gaming on Windows 10

Hi, jellysill

My name is Jennifer and I am an Independent Advisor. I would be happy to help you today.

Follow these steps:

1. launch powershell
2. Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
3. Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

Restart your system

Note you will get warning about scripts, not sure if this helps or if this makes you more vulnerable to malware