Microsoft KB Archive/234561

= Microsoft Windows 98 Year 2000 Update 2 Readme File Contents =

PSS ID Number: 234561

Article Last Modified on 11/21/2000

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows 98

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This article was previously published under Q234561



SUMMARY
This article contains a copy of the information in the Microsoft Windows 98 Year 2000 Update 2 Readme file. This file is installed in the Windows folder as a file named Y2k_2.txt by the Microsoft Windows 98 Year 2000 Update that was released in June, 1999.



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************************************************************************ Microsoft Windows 98 Year 2000 Update 2 README File May 1999 YEAR 2000 READINESS DISCLOSURE

(c) Copyright Microsoft Corporation, 1999

This document provides complementary information to supplement the Microsoft Windows 98 documentation.

The Windows 98 Year 2000 Update provides Windows 98 updates to resolve known year 2000 issues with the Windows 98 operating system.

For current year 2000 information regarding Microsoft products, visit the Microsoft Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/year2000 or call 1-888-MSFT-Y2K or contact your local Microsoft subsidiary. Such information is generally available to all Microsoft customers for the sole purpose of assisting the planning for the transition to the year 2000. This document contains the information currently available concerning the date-handling behavior of Microsoft's products and is subject to change, at any time, without notice. We therefore recommend that you continue to check the information on the Microsoft Year 2000 Web site regularly for any such changes.

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=========================================================== I.  Installation Notes

II. Release Notes

III. What Are the Year 2000 Issues in Windows 98?

IV. Additional Issues

V.  Microsoft Technical Support

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I. Installation Notes -

A. System Requirements You need 20 MB free disk space to install the Windows 98 Year 2000 Update.

B. Downloading and Extracting the Windows 98 Year 2000 Update If you download the update from the Web site, be sure to read the release notes completely before you extract and install the Windows 98 Year 2000 Update.

After you download the Update, a compressed executable file called Y2kw98_2.exe appears on your hard drive. This executable file contains the files you need to update your system for the year 2000.

>>> To extract the file and install the year 2000 updates: 1. Click Start, and then click Run. 2. In the Run dialog box, click Browse. 3. Locate the Y2kw98_2.exe file on your hard drive. 4. Click Open, and then click OK. 5. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.

This Year 2000 Update is for Windows 98 only. This Update is not intended for use on and will not install on computers running Windows 95, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows NT, or Windows 2000. For international versions of Windows 98, download and install the appropriate language version for your location.

C. Before You Install the Windows 98 Year 2000 Update Because the Windows 98 Year 2000 Update updates your system files and requires you to restart your computer during installation, you should save and close all open documents and close all programs before installing the Update.

D. Useful Switches There are several installation options available to advanced users when installing the Windows 98 Year 2000 Update. You can view these options at any time by clicking Start, clicking Run, typing y2kw98_2.exe /? and then clicking OK.

To use the optional installation parameters below, type y2kw98_2.exe

/Q - Quiet mode (skips all user prompts) - Useful for silent installations in batch setups. /T: - Specifies a temporary working folder. /C - Extract files only to the folder when used also with /T - Allows an administrator to download files into a specified location. /C: - Override install command defined by author - Not used for this update.

II. Release Notes -

If You Reinstall Windows 98 If you have to reinstall the Windows 98 operating system, you will lose the benefits of the Windows 98 Year 2000 Update installation. Any time you have to reinstall Windows 98, run the Windows 98 Year 2000 Update installation again.

III. Year 2000 Issues addressed in this release.

The issues listed below are resolved in this release.

1. OLE Automation The Microsoft Automation library contains routines for interpreting two digit years and provides a convenient way for applications to  create unambiguous (serial) dates. In Windows 98 the current two digit year cutoff is 2029. This means that two digit years beginning with 30 will be interpreted as being in the 20th century, i.e. 1/1/30 is converted to 1/1/1930, irrespective of the user's century window settings in Control Panel\Regional Settings\Date tab.

2. DOS Xcopy When using xcopy in real mode with the optional parameter /D:date, xcopy does not accept years entered as 2 digits, except for the years 80 - 99. The message "Invalid date" is displayed. When using xcopy in  protected mode (from within Windows) 2 digit dates are accepted but are recognized as being within the 20th century (02/05/01 is seen as  02/05/1901).

3. MQRT.DLL Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) is installed as part of Personal Web Server and works with two types of digital certificates - external and internal. The internal certificates is a concept supported by  MSMQ to allow MSMQ applications to allocate certificates for the purpose of sending authenticated messages. The code creating the requests for internal certificates for MSMQ 1.0 requests to set the validity of the newly created certificates to 10 years. The problem materializes when MSMQ tries to create such a certificate on February 29, 2000 (or any leap year such as 2004, 2008, etc.). This fails because it computes the validity by adding 10 years to the current date which yields 2/29/2010. This is an illegal date because 2010 is  not a leap year.

IV. Additional Issues --

A. VDHCP.386 There are no new Y2K issues. A versioning problem with VDHCP.386 was identified and is corrected with this release.

V. Product Support Services --

Refer to the SUPPORT.TXT file located in the Windows directory for available support options.

THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED TO YOU FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF ASSISTING THE PLANNING FOR THE TRANSITION TO THE YEAR 2000. THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS THE INFORMATION CURRENTLY AVAILABLE CONCERNING THE BEHAVIOR OF MICROSOFT'S PRODUCTS IN THE NEXT CENTURY AND IS UPDATED REGULARLY AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE. WE THEREFORE RECOMMEND THAT YOU CONTINUE TO CHECK THE INFORMATION LOCATED AT http://microsoft.com/year2000 REGULARLY FOR ANY CHANGES.

ALL COMMUNICATIONS OR CONVEYANCES OF INFORMATION TO YOU CONCERNING MICROSOFT AND THE YEAR 2000, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THIS DOCUMENT OR ANY OTHER PAST, PRESENT OR FUTURE INFORMATION REGARDING YEAR 2000 TESTING, ASSESSMENTS, READINESS, TIME TABLES, OBJECTIVES, OR OTHER (COLLECTIVELY THE “MICROSOFT YEAR 2000 STATEMENT”), ARE PROVIDED AS A “YEAR 2000 READINESS DISCLOSURE” (AS DEFINED BY THE YEAR 2000 INFORMATION AND READINESS DISCLOSURE ACT) AND CAN BE FOUND AT MICROSOFT’S YEAR 2000 WEBSITE LOCATED AT http://microsoft.com/year2000/ (THE “Y2K WEBSITE”). EACH MICROSOFT YEAR 2000 STATEMENT IS PROVIDED PURSUANT TO THE TERMS HEREOF, THE TERMS OF THE Y2K WEBSITE, AND THE YEAR 2000 INFORMATION AND READINESS DISCLOSURE ACT FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF ASSISTING THE PLANNING FOR THE TRANSITION TO THE YEAR 2000. EACH MICROSOFT YEAR 2000 STATEMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION CURRENTLY AVAILABLE AND IS UPDATED REGULARLY AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE. MICROSOFT THEREFORE RECOMMENDS THAT YOU CHECK THE Y2K WEBSITE REGULARLY FOR ANY CHANGES TO ANY MICROSOFT YEAR 2000 STATEMENT. EACH MICROSOFT YEAR 2000 STATEMENT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. CONSEQUENTLY, MICROSOFT DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. MOREOVER, MICROSOFT DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF ANY MICROSOFT YEAR 2000 STATEMENT IN TERMS OF ITS CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY MICROSOFT OR ITS AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY OR IN ANY WAY DECREASE THE SCOPE OF THIS WARRANTY DISCLAIMER. IN NO EVENT SHALL MICROSOFT OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER REGARDING ANY MICROSOFT YEAR 2000 STATEMENT INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, PUNITIVE OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF MICROSOFT OR ITS SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, SO THE FOREGOING LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN EACH MICROSOFT YEAR 2000 STATEMENT IS FOUND AT THE Y2K WEBSITE AND IS INTENDED TO BE READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER INFORMATION LOCATED AT THE Y2K WEBSITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MICROSOFT’S YEAR 2000 COMPLIANCE STATEMENT, THE DESCRIPTION OF THE CATEGORIES OF COMPLIANCE INTO WHICH MICROSOFT HAS CLASSIFIED ITS PRODUCTS IN ITS YEAR 2000 PRODUCT GUIDE, AND THE MICROSOFT YEAR 2000 TEST CRITERIA.

ANY MICROSOFT YEAR 2000 STATEMENTS MADE TO YOU IN THE COURSE OF PROVIDING YEAR 2000 RELATED UPDATES, YEAR 2000 DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS, OR REMEDIATION SERVICES (IF ANY) ARE SUBJECT TO THE YEAR 2000 INFORMATION AND READINESS DISCLOSURE ACT (112 STAT. 2386). IN CASE OF A DISPUTE, THIS ACT MAY REDUCE YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS REGARDING THE USE OF ANY SUCH STATEMENTS, UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED BY YOUR CONTRACT OR TARIFF.

Additional query words: Y2KW98_2.TXT

Keywords: kbinfo kbreadme KB234561

Technology: kbWin98 kbWin98search

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