Check this page first before hitting the panic button...Thanks to Barbara Stewart > Here is the Official Microsoft web site about the email Hoax. > > http://www.microsoft.com/y2k/hoax/y2khoax.htm > > Qutoted from that page: > > There is a hoax email in circulation on the Internet concerning > the Y2K compliance of Windows 95, Windows 98 and > Windows > NT. There are various versions of this mail which > resemble the > text below: > > "Every copy of Windows will fail on January > 1st unless you > fix > it now, to fix it..." > > 1.Click on "My Computer". > 2.Click on "Control Panel". > 3.Click on "Regional Settings". > 4.Click on the "Date" tab. Where it says, > "Short Date > Sample" look and see if it shows a "two > Digit" year. Of > course it does. That's the default setting > for Windows 95, > 98 and NT. This date RIGHT HERE is the date > that feeds > application software and WILL NOT rollover in > the year > 2000. It will rollover to 00. > 5.Click on the button across from "Short Date > Style" and > select the option that shows mm/dd/yyyy. Be > sure your > selection has four Y's showing, not two. > 6.Click "Apply" and then click on "OK" at the > bottom. Easy > enough to fix. However, every single > installation of > Windows worldwide is defaulted to fail Y2K > rollover. > > "Thanks and have a great day" > > Facts about Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT and > > Y2K... > > Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows > NT are > compliant assuming all recommended actions > specified in > the respective compliance documents have been > taken. > The steps above are not required actions and > do not > have to be performed in order to obtain > compliance. > The short date format style in Regional > Settings is a > display setting only. > Dates are stored and processed by Windows in > a 4 digit > format regardless of the short date format > style selected > in Regional settings. > Customers can use the regional settings tab > to adjust > how the date is displayed (e.g. mm/dd/yy or > mm/dd/yyyy) > In order to avoid ambiguous dates, Microsoft > recommends > using 4 digits when entering date data and > expanding the > date field in regional setting to 4 digits. > However this is > not required to attain compliance. > > > > -- > Barbara's Genealogy Home Page > http://www.galstar.com/~stewart/index.html > mailto:stewart@galstar.com > Surnames: Summers, Stewart, Carroll, Beaver, Wright, Banks, Barnett, > Morgan, Cabe, Burrow. > > > > ==== TNBRADLE Mailing List ==== > ~~~~~BRADLEY COUNTY, TN MAIL LIST~~~~~ > TNGENWEB BRADLEY SITE http://www.tngenweb.org/bradley > Noel Matthews - tnbradleyml@noelm.com - Keeper of the List > Happy Holidays! Cathy Hall Grand Island, NY TNGenWeb Bradley County http://www.tngenweb.org/bradley Subscribe/Unsubscribe to Bradley Mail List: TNBRADLE-L-request@rootsweb.com TNGenWeb Polk County http://www.tngenweb.org/polk Subscribe/Unsubscribe to Polk Mail List TNPOLK-L-request@rootsweb.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Barbara Stewart <stewart@galstar.com> To: <TNBRADLE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 1999 10:05 AM Subject: [TNBRADLE] Windows 95, Windows 98 Year 2000 email HOAX