Microsoft Windows 98 Year 2000 Update 2 Readme File Contents
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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
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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.
NOTE: For the best readability, maximize the Notepad window.
To print this file, open it in Notepad or another word processing
program, and then click Print on the File menu.
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CONTENTS
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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
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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 <option>
/Q - Quiet mode (skips all user prompts) - Useful for silent
installations in batch setups.
/T: <full path> - 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: <cmd> - Override install command defined by author - Not used
for this update.
II. Release Notes
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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