Cohousing-L Mailing List: Y2K Compliance for Windows in 10 Easy Clicks

[allenbutcher (allenbutcher]

Y2K:  How Long Will You Put Off Dealing With This?
or
Y2K Bug Relief in 10 Easy Clicks


You may think your PC is "Y2K" compliant, and some little tests may have
actually affirmed that your hardware 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.


Click on "START".
Click on "SETTINGS".
Double click on "Control Panel".
Double click on "Regional settings" icon (look for the little world
globe), not the date and time icon "Regional Settings."


Click on the "Date" tab at the top of the page (last tab 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 previously changed it (and
you probably haven't) -- it will be set incorrectly with just the two
Y's.. it needs to be four!  That's because Microsoft made the 2 digits
setting the default setting for Windows 95, Windows 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 botton.


Easy enough to fix. However, every "as distributed" installation of
Windows worldwide is defaulted to fail Y2K rollover... 


Pass 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!