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Hoax:
"Y2K - Windows will Fail" |
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Sábado 11 de setiembre de 1999.
Este hoax (engaño o broma) habla de una falla en
Windows 95 y 98 sobre el cambio de fecha, y da
unas soluciones que son tontas, puesto que la
supuesta falla no existe, ya que Windows 98 está
preparado para entender la fecha 1/1/00 como
1/1/2000 sin ningún cambio.
No confunda este hoax con el virus FIX2001. No redistribuya este
mensaje, lo que en él se dice es falso.
Thought
you might be interested in the following sent
to me by a friend. I went in to my settings,
and sure enough, it was exactly as this
e-mail states. I changed mine -- better safe
than sorry!
I sent this to my son, Mike, for his
evaluation before sending this out to those
on my email list. The following is his reply:
"There is a short date and a long
date...I changed it as instructed but I am
not sure what it does. The long date was OK
and Y2K compliant. I tend not to trust these
"panic" emails.
There is no verifiable proof that there is a
problem but caution is the best step. It is
my understanding that this date can affect
"date-sensitive" programs. As
usual, DO WITH IT AS YOU WILL.
CHECK IT OUT...
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 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. 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 two) Then
click on "Apply" and then click on
"OK"at the bottom. Easy enough to
fix.
However, it appears every single installation
of Windows worldwide is defaulted to fail the
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.
Más información:
http://www.datafellows.com/hoaxes/y2kfix.htm
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