SetYear

Description

This program will automatically set the year on your computer date. This is useful for people who have a computer that isn't Y2K compatible, and instead of going to 2000 or beyond, the year does strange things and goes to 1900 or 2049.

Installing

Make a directory on your hard drive, then download and put SetYear.exe in it.

Using

The first time you run it, you have to tell it what year it is. From then on, it will remember and automatically roll over in the New Year. Go to the MS-DOS Prompt (usually Start Menu->Programs->MS-DOS Prompt). Change into the directory you saved the program in, and type "SetYear 2001", replacing 2001 with the current year.

Next, to make the program be run every time you start your computer. Run Windows' "Notepad" program, open C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT, and put the following three lines in it:

Save the file, close Notepad, and that's it.