CHECK YOUR PC
The following information may be of interest to
those of you with, a PC at home:-
You may think your PC is "Y2K" compliant, and
soms little tests
may have actually actually that your harware is
compliant, and you
may even have a little company sticker affixed
to your system saying
"Y2K Compliant" .... but you'll be surprised
that Windows may still
crash unless you do this simple exercise below.
I know that I had not
thought of this and my home computer and work
computer would have
failed Jan 1, 2000.
Easy fix but something Microsoft seems to have
missed in
certitying their software as Y2K
compliant.
This is simple to do, and but VERY
important.
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Click on "START"
click on "SETTINGS"
Double click on "Control Panel"
Double click on "regional settings" icon (look
for the little worldglobe).
Clink on the "Date" tab at the top of the page.
(last lab on the top right.
Where it says, "Short Date Sample," look and see
if it shows a
"two digit" year format("YY"). Unless you've
proviously changed it
(and you probably haven't) -- it well be set
incorrectly with just the two Y's
It needs to be four!
That's brcause Microsoft made the 2 digits
setting the default
setting for Window 95, Window 98 and
NT.
This date format selected is the date that
Windows feeds "ALL"
application software and will not rollover into
the year 2000. It will
roll over to the year 00. (*)
Click on the button across from "Short Date
Style" and select the
option that shows, "mm/dd/yyyy" or "m/d/yyyy".
(Be sure your selection
has four y's showing, not just
"mm/dd/yy).
Then click on Apply."
Then click on "OK" at the button.
Easy enough to fix. However, every "as
distributed" installation of
Windows worldwide is defaulted to fail Y2K
rollover ...
Pas this along to your PC buddies ... no matter
how much of a guru
they think they are .... this might be a welcome
bit of information !
