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CHECK IT OUT...
is your computer Y2K set?

  1. Double click on "My Computer".

  2. Double click on "Control Panel".

  3. Double click on "Regional Settings" icon.

  4. Click on the "Date" tab at the top of the page. 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/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.

  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. Then click on "Apply" and then click on"OK" at the bottom.
This is 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.

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