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From: Beau
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 00:00
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ย ย ย ย Found this on internet --- You may think that your computer
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 "Y2KCompliant"... but you'll be
surprised that Windows may still crash unless you do this simple
exercise below. Easy fix but something Microsoft seems to have missed in
certifying their software as Y2K compliant. This is simple to do, but
VERY important. 1.Go to the "Control Panel" and double click on
"Regional settings" icon 2.Click on the "Date" tab at the top of the
page. (last tab on the top right) 3.Where it says, "Short Date Sample",
look and see if it shows a "two digit" year format ("YY"). 4.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. 5.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. 6.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. 7.Easy enough to fix. However, every "as distributed"
installation of Windows worldwide is defaulted to fail Y2K rollover.
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From: lavendear@webtv.net (Beau)
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Date: 1999/09/13
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