We recently bought and installed Norton System Works which included some free programs - one being Norton 2000 to check whether anything might go wrong with our computer when the clock ticks over. I ran the checks and only one error came up, the message being “Windows Short Date Format should be changed to 4 digits”.
I checked in Windows Date/Time and it comes up with 4 digits already so I can’t understand why it’s telling me there’s an error. Even the Norton System which I have running is 4 digits. Am I overlooking something in my computer that I must update? Thank you for your assistance.

When you checked in Windows Date/Time settings did you just double click on the time in the system tray or did you check in ‘Regional Settings’ in the Control Panel? If you just checked by doubling clicking the time in the system tray ,the year there is displayed in 4 digit format. This, however, doesn’t give any indication of whether the Short Date Format in Windows is in fact displayed as a 4 digit year. To check if it is, go to ‘Start menu’ > ‘Settings’ > ‘Control Panel’, and open the ‘Regional Settings’ control panel. Click the ‘Date’ tab and here you can see the ‘Short Date’ settings. From here, check that the ‘Short Date Style’ is set to something like ‘d/M/yyyy’. For our purposes the ‘d’ (date) and ‘M’ (month) are irrelevant. What we are interested in is the ‘yyyy’. These four y’s mean that the year setting for the Short Date Format is 4 digits which is what Norton 2000 is complaining about. So if there are only two y’s there (eg. d/M/yy) add two more y’s to make the year a 4 digit number (eg. d/M/yyyy). If, however, after doing this, Norton 2000 is still not happy, I suggest that you ignore it. You have seen that the year is a 4 digit number and maybe even changed it to that yourself, so I would say that it is a small bug in the software so trust yourself.