I first emailed you re changing the dates on Regional Settings to dd/mm/yyyy to avoid the Y2K problem. (30/8/99). Since then you have written quite a bit concerning this subject in the Canberra Times. (27/9/99 and 11/10/99) but only about Windows 98 but I have Windows 95 on my system. I changed the Regional Settings to dd/mm/yyyy then ran Y2K compliance test which I downloaded (free) from the Internet. (www.ntsl.com).Unfortunately I failed the test. Test summary - Hardware clock is compatible but progression to the year 2000 fails. Manual transition is supported and it passes the 21st century Leap Year test. Obviously changing the Regional Settings date was not successful. Any ideas?

Changing the regional settings in Windows was successful otherwise that report would say that Windows isn’t compliant (or something to that effect). The message that you are getting is telling you that you have a problem with your hardware. From the portion of the message you gave me it seems that your computer can support dates 2000 and onward correctly but it cannot roll over to the year 2000 by itself, it has to be done manually. That is, when the year 2000 comes around you will have to enter the BIOS setup, by pressing the DEL key during startup , and change the date to 2000 manually. There is really no fix for this unless you upgrade your computer. It may be possible to add some physical hardware to your motherboard to fix this problem, but personally I would not attempt that feat. I suggest the easiest and least expensive solution is for you to manually change the date when the year 2000 comes around.