--part1_0.abb06023.259c767e_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_0.abb06023.259c767e_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: Lockless12@aol.com From: Lockless12@aol.com Full-name: Lockless12 Message-ID: <0.34d6dc25.259c754f@aol.com> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 03:43:59 EST Subject: Computer Y2K ready? To: Howell04@aol.com, NOTMEHIM@aol.com, CatsFour@aol.com, Cowboypapa@aol.com, Jlcy21@aol.com, YtBro1@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 38 I am passing this info on to any like me that may not so computer literate. I don't pretend to understand what it means, I just did it. It came from my Godmother's nephew, who is the kind of young man that can build a computer from scratch. (Boy the kids these days!) I am typing this just like it was passed on to me. Hope it helps. Bev "You may think your PC is Y2K complian, and some little tests may have actually affirmed that your hardware is compliant, and you may even have a litte company sticker affixed to you 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 and work computer would have failed Jan 1st. Easy fix, but somthing Microsoft sems to have missed in certifying their software as Y2K compliant. Simple to do, but very important! Click on SETTINGS double click on "Control Panel" Scroll down and dbl click on "Regional Settings" (the little world globe) Click on the "Date" tab at the top of the page Where it says "Short Date Sample", look and see if it shows a "2 digit " year format, ie. (YY). Unless you've previously changed it (and I didn't know it was there......LOL) - it will set incorrectly with just the 2 YY's. It needs to be four! That's because Microsoft made the 2 digits setting the default setting for Windows 95 & 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 the "Short date style" and select the option that shows, "mm/dd/yyyy". Be sure you have 4 Y's, not 2 Y's. Click "Apply" Then click "OK" Easy enoungh to fix. However, every "as distributed" installation of Windows worldwide is defaulted to fail Y2K rollover... Pass this along to you PC buddies...... no matter how much of a guru they think they are.... this might be a welcome bit of information!"" >From Me, I wish you all a very Happy and Blessed New Year!!!! Bev --part1_0.abb06023.259c767e_boundary--