. Byron, MJ, changing the date to mm/dd/yyyy changes the dates on the screen of all of your saved files on the desktop -- for instance, "My Documents". They suddenly have spread out to refer to 1999 (or 1997, or whatever it was), instead of 99.... Takes up more room if you have a lot of files on the list.... I don't know that this will do anything at all for Y2K. Penny, NY