Can anyone help me? I tried the quick fix for my pc as stated in.. http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0018MX My puter worked fine till I restarted the puter the next morning. When I opened my browser none of the hot links would work, bookmarks were ok and when I would type in a url into the location bar it worked fine too... But none of the links on this or any other page would work... I changed everything back and things are working fine now.. Any advice.. Thanks

-- Allene (Allene7@yahoo.com), July 25, 1999

Answers

I am using Netscape Communicator 4.5

-- Allene (Allene7@yahoo.com), July 25, 1999.

I checked my PC and it is set to interpret two digit dates between 1930 and 2029 - so next year the short date "00" will be interpreted as 2000. No need to change as prior threa suggested. Check yours to see about this, it's right above the short date section.

-- Gus (y2kk@usa.net), July 25, 1999.

Mine just says Gregorian above it is that right Gus?

-- allene (ALLENE7@yahoo.com), July 25, 1999.

The referenced thread is about setting the display format for windows to 4 digits.

That change will do nothing to fix bad data in your PC databases. It does nothing to resolve non-compliant software problems that you may have, so you might continue to generate bad data. It MAY conflict with what some software expects, rendering it unusable or less usable when the 4-digit setting is turned on.

There is no single fix for all PCs and PC data. Do the 4-digit year if you can, and if all your software continues to work. Do NOT advance the date on your PC to a future date without backing up ALL your data!

-- bw (home@puget.sound), July 26, 1999.

Allene:

Your problem details are vague. Considering the "quick fix" provided, I think the blame is incorrectly being placed on Y2K. Did you try closing / reopening your browser? Newer versions of Netscape (4.X) occasionally hang - certain functions of the browser stop functioning (i.e. ability to interpret hotlinks). Even after you close it you can still see it in your task list. Kill it and relaunch it; I'll wager dollars to donuts that this will solve the problem. If it doesn't, post here with more specifics.

-- Mori-Nu (silkenet@yahoo.com), July 27, 1999.