I was working with a client yesterday who could not get her AOL cd to install. My first thought was, 'There's a problem here?' The system had just had a low-level format performed and windows reloaded about 2 days before, and for those 2 days AOL worked fine, then yesterday it disappeared from her system. The system (running XP Home) would throw up an application error as soon as the AOL cd tried to autorun, or as soon as the setup.exe file was run. She had already worked with AOL for an hour or so, and they told her it was a problem with the system. We tried everything -- checking her drivers, disabling background software, etc. (AOL had already tried loading the software in safe mode.) After about an hour, I was about to recommend reloading again, when I thought of doing a system restore instead. We brought up the restore utility, and the calendar showed it was October of 2099. hmmm.... We opened up her date/time applet, and, lo and behold, the date was.... October 10, 3427. We reset the date and everything started working fine.
My first thought -- I wonder if she picked up a virus in those two days.
My second thought -- Looks like AOL has a little Y3K problem. At least they have time to get it fixed.
Reason for posting -- Just wanted to share.
My first thought -- I wonder if she picked up a virus in those two days.
My second thought -- Looks like AOL has a little Y3K problem. At least they have time to get it fixed.
Reason for posting -- Just wanted to share.
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