Sharon F
April 11th 03, 08:51 PM
On 10 Apr 2003 17:53:00 -0700, (Angus) wrote:
>Now I know why all these 30-day evaluation licenses evaporate right
>away. It's because this stupid thing interprets the day as the month
>and the month as the day on startup. So today, April 10th, everytime I
>boot up, I get told it's October 4th. Tomorrow it'll be November 4th.
> This is ****ing me off beyond my wildest dreams. I only know what
>I've already tried, which is making sure the bios date is in order (it
>is) and rechecking my regional settings. I tried changing all my
>region settings to what they already were, and clicked Ok, hoping that
>it would force a change in whatever pain-in-the-ass routine is getting
>it wrong. It seemed to work for a couple of boots, but now it's back
>again, and here to stay.
You say that you've already checked regional settings and that looks
okay. (Date and month format is what you expected it to be?)
All that's left is the how the timer mechanism in the software is
interpreting those settings. Have you contacted the software vendor
about the regional date problem? They would probably be interested in
finding this out and may be able to do something about adjusting your
evaluation period.
Sharon F
MS MVP [Shell/User]
>Now I know why all these 30-day evaluation licenses evaporate right
>away. It's because this stupid thing interprets the day as the month
>and the month as the day on startup. So today, April 10th, everytime I
>boot up, I get told it's October 4th. Tomorrow it'll be November 4th.
> This is ****ing me off beyond my wildest dreams. I only know what
>I've already tried, which is making sure the bios date is in order (it
>is) and rechecking my regional settings. I tried changing all my
>region settings to what they already were, and clicked Ok, hoping that
>it would force a change in whatever pain-in-the-ass routine is getting
>it wrong. It seemed to work for a couple of boots, but now it's back
>again, and here to stay.
You say that you've already checked regional settings and that looks
okay. (Date and month format is what you expected it to be?)
All that's left is the how the timer mechanism in the software is
interpreting those settings. Have you contacted the software vendor
about the regional date problem? They would probably be interested in
finding this out and may be able to do something about adjusting your
evaluation period.
Sharon F
MS MVP [Shell/User]