A friend of mine sent this to me, and it is correct about the settings, but
I don't know if they are correct about the way this affects applications.
Before I run around and have a thousand PC's fixed, can anyone tell me if
this is valid or not?

thanks,
shawn


  You may think your PC is "Y2K" compliant, and some little tests
  may have actually affirmed that your hardware is compliant, and you
  may even have a little company sticker affixed to your 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 computer and work computer would have
failed
  Jan1,1999. Easy fix but something Microsoft seems to have missed in
  certifying their software as Y2K compliant.

  This is simple to do, and but VERY important.
  -----------------------------------------

  Click on "START" for Windows 95 or 98 and Main in Program Manager in
  Windows 3.1

  Click on "SETTINGS" for 95 and 98.

  Double click on "Control Panel".

  Double click on "Regional settings" icon (look for the little
  world globe)for 95 and 98 and International (little globe) for 3.1.

  Click on the "Date" tab at the top of the page. (last tab on the
  top right)for 95 and 98

  Where it says, "Short Date Sample", look and see if it shows a
  "two digit" year format ("YY"). Unless you've previously changed it
  (and you probably haven't) -- it will be set incorrectly with just the

  two
  Y's.. it needs to be four!

  That's because Microsoft made the 2 digits setting the default
  setting for Windows 95, Windows 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 "Short Date Style" and select the
  option that shows, "mm/dd/yyyy" or "m/d/yyyy". (Be sure your selection

  has four y's showing, not just "mm/dd/yy).

  Then click on "Apply" for 95 and 98, just click OK for 3.1

  Then click on "OK" at the button.