Windows 95,98 & NT

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I just got this information.

Windows 95,98 and NT are released with the date format defaulting to mm/dd/yy. It is important that you change the date option in your computer to mm/dd/yyyy. If you do not, Windows applications that depend on a fully qualified century may not operate correctly. (Windows "feeds" subordinate applications with date information specified in "this" format.)

Click on "START" Click on "SETTING" Click on "CONTROL PANEL" Double click on "REGIONAL SETTINGS" icon Click on the "DATE" tab at the top of the page.

Examine the "Short Date Sample". If it does not indicate a fully qualified century, i.e., "yyyy", then click on the "Short Date Style" pull down menu arrow and select the "mm/dd/yyyy" option. (Be sure your selection has four Y's showing and not two.)

Click on "APPLY" and then click on "OK" at the bottom.

Close window and then open it to make sure that the correction worked.

-- Roger (roger@netdx.com), August 10, 1999

Answers

There is a hoax email in circulation on the Internet concerning the Y2K compliance of Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT. Please check out the following: http://www.microsoft.com/y2k/hoax/y2khoax.htm

-- Rich Poremba (richp@poremba.com), August 14, 1999.

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