Y2K and Windows Help

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----- Original Message -----
From: "G.W. Sullivan" <truth@sunline.net>
To: <higher-fire@prairienet.org>
Sent: Monday, December 27, 1999 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: Y2K and Windows Help


> I know it may be a little late, but I want to hopefully save some
> people some aggravation, and money. I ran one of the Y2K checks below,
> and my RTC (real time clock)failed, which caused me to panic.
>  My first inclination was to buy the "fix-it: software offered for sale
> by the compant offering the "free" Y2K check.
>  I'm glad I waited to call the company I bought my puter from. They told
> me a simple check to do myself, and if it then failed I could bring it
> in.

There are quite a few "free offers" out there that will do nothing for
legacy computers. I have a few and on Jan 1, they will read DATE mm-dd-yy .
That means, according to manufacture websites, that on Jan 1, I have to
simply enter the date in the BIOS. The easiest fix is to change the date
_now_ to read 1972, as the date rollover will be the same from 72 to 73 as
99 to 00. Quick and painless, then you can change it back on Jan 1. Bro
Tyler has been following this a bit closer, but I don't fear much from Y2K,
except that gasoline will be going up a quarter a gallon this last week!

At least it appears on the way up here in New England.

Brian Berger
Manchester, NH