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What
do you think????
Here's a helpful hint to prevent some of
the y2k blues...........
Y2K PC Problem With
Date Format That Feeds ALL Windows Applications Software!
Click on
"START".
Click on "SETTINGS".
Double click on "Control Panel".
Double click on
"Regional settings" icon (look for the little world globe).
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. Instead 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...
Pass this along to your PC friends... no
matter how much of a guru they
think they are... this might be a welcome bit
of information!
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