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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: Lane3 who wrote (7555)8/1/1999 3:08:00 PM
From: Ken  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
Here is a Y2K computer fix, in case it is of benefit to you or anyone else, sent me by a business associate. Bearcub said he successfully implemented it.

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For those of you with Windows 95, 98 or NT this information will prove
very valuable.

Double click on "My Computer".
Double click on "Control Panel".
Double click on "Regional Settings" icon.
Click on the "Date" tab at the top of the page.
Where it says, "Short Date Smple", look and see if it shows a "two
digit" year.

Of course it does. That's the default setting for Windows 95,
Windows 98 and NT. This date RIGHT HERE is the date that feeds
application
software and WILL NOT rollover in the year 2000. It will roll over to
00.

Click on the down arrow button on the "Short Date Style" box and
select the option that shows, mm/dd/yyyy. Be sure your selection has
four
Y's showing, not two. Then click on "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. How many people know about
it?
How many people know to change that? What will be the effect?
Who knows. But this is another example of the pervasiveness and
systematic nature of the problem.

Now YOU know - pass it on.
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