But with a little time and care, average users should have few problems fixing their home PCs. With a fully scrubbed computer, New Year’s Day won’t have to be a dreaded showdown but a relaxing weekend with plenty of time for the really important things, like finding a good bottle of champagne.
YEAR 2000 STATUS OF COMMON CONSUMER SOFTWARE
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America Online
AOL 4.0: Still testing
AOL 3.0: Still testing
Intuit
Quicken 99 for Windows (latest version): Compliant
Quicken 98 for Windows: Compliant
Quicken 98 for Macintosh (latest version): Compliant
Quicken 6 and 7 for Macintosh: Not compliant
Problem: Online banking features (account access, investment tracking and payment) will not support dates after Dec. 31, 1999.
Remedy: Users will be able to upgrade for free to Quicken 98 after receiving authorization from their financial institutions.
Quicken 5 and 6 for Windows: Not compliant
Problem: Online banking features will not support dates later than Dec. 31, 1999.
Remedy: Users will be able to upgrade for free to Quicken 98 after receiving authorization from their financial institutions.
Netscape
Communicator 4.6 (latest version): Compliant
Navigator 4.08 (latest version): Compliant
Communicator 4.0 to 4.06 and Navigator 2.02 to 4.06
Problem: A component provided by a different company that is necessary to run programs written in the Java language may cause occasional year 2000 problems.
Remedy: Upgrade to latest version of Navigator or Communicator, both of which are free.
Microsoft
Microsoft MS-DOS 5.x and 6.x: Compliant with small concerns
Problem: Main problem is the inability of DOS to accept two-digit years from 00 to 79 through the DATE command.
Remedy: Enter four-digit years.
Windows 98: Compliant with small concerns
Problem: Several minor issues, such as the inability of the telephone dialer to correctly log dates past 2000, although the dialer itself will continue to work. A component provided by a different company that is necessary to run programs written in the Java language may cause occasional year 2000 problems.
Remedy: Apply the Windows 98 year 2000 update, available for free on Microsoft’s year 2000 resource disk or on the company’s Web site.
Windows 95: Compliant with small concerns
Problem: Several minor issues, such as the inability to search by date for files created after 2000.
Remedy: Apply Windows 95 year 2000 update, available for free on Microsoft’s year 2000 resource disk or on the company’s Web site.
Windows 3.x: Compliant with small concerns
Problem: Same issues as DOS and is unable to set the date with the mouse to Feb. 29, 2000.
Remedy: No software update available, although a solution is to simply not set the date on Feb. 29 or to use the keyboard to set the date.
Internet Explorer 5.0 (latest version): Compliant
Internet Explorer 4.0x: Compliant with small concerns
Problem: One of the minor problems involves the immediate expiration of unusual browser “cookies” that have two-digit “00” expiration dates. A component provided by a different company that is necessary to run programs written in the Java language may cause occasional year 2000 problems.
Remedy: Apply the SP2 update for IE 4.0x, available on Microsoft’s free year 2000 resource disk or on the company’s Web site.
Internet Explorer 3.x: Not compliant
Problem: Similar cookie and Java problem as IE 4.0x and other issues.
Remedy: Upgrade to IE 4.0x, which is free.
Money 99 (latest version): Compliant
Money 98: Compliant
Outlook 2000 (latest version): Compliant
Outlook 98: Compliant
Office Professional 2000 (latest version): Compliant
Office Professional 97: Compliant
Problems: Some versions that have not been patched with the SR 2 update may have some very minor issues.
Remedy: Apply the SR 2 update available on Microsoft’s free year 2000 resource disk or on the company’s Web site. –
Symantec
ACT 4.0 (latest version): Compliant
ACT 3.x: Compliant
ACT 2.8 for Macintosh (latest version): Compliant
ACT 2.5 for Macintosh: Compliant
(Ashley Dunn can be reached at ashley.dunn@latimes.com.)
(c) 1999, Los Angeles Times. Distributed by Los Angeles Times Syndicate
