On 6/8/07, Tom Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My PC has developed a mysterious & annoying problem in the past 3-4 weeks -- the system year keeps resetting itself to 2005. (The month, day, and time are correct, just the year changes.) I'm running Windows 2000 Professional 5.00.2195 with Service Pack 4 on an HP Vectra with a Pentium III chip (1000 Mz). Of course, I've tried resetting the year through Windows and hitting "Apply." This often works until the next reboot. Sometimes, however, the year later reverts to 2005 in the middle of a session, and it always goes back to 2005 the next time I restart or power off/on.
First of all, does Tom know you are using his email account, Anne? <grin> A. My main thought is that the battery on your motherboard that keeps this kind of information may be starting to fail. That has led to weird behavior related to dates and such for me in the past. B. It could be some sort of malware, trying to avoid being detected by doing everything in 2005. Have you done any good scans lately? I don't know of any tools offhand to see what is accessing your time settings. If you go to www.sysinternals.com, you will get redirected to the Microsoft site (they bought the company) but you can still get Process Explorer there. It might be instructive to see what is running. But one of my first steps would be to find out where your CMOS battery is for your computer and see if you can Google how hard it is to replace. The other main thing would be to run as many malware detectors as possible. Look for rootkits, spyware, viruses, etc. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
