| Microsoft Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure
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| Microsoft Year 2000 Product Analyzer
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Microsoft is
committed to providing the tools necessary to help our customers
prepare for the Year 2000. There are three components to Year 2000
readiness, Hardware, Software and Data. The Microsoft Year 2000
Product Analyzer scans a computerÆs hard drive, looking for core
Microsoft software and generates a report with year
2000-information.
Contents
- Features
- System
Requirements
- New
Database
- Installation
Guide
- Microsoft Year
2000 Product Analyzer Support
Features
The
Microsoft Year 2000 Product Analyzer performs the following tasks:
- Identifies installed software products on specified drives
by scanning the drives for executable files
- Compares the resulting list of products to the products
listed in a compliance database
- Generates a report of the compliance levels of the products
it discovered, based on the information in the compliance database
A Microsoft products compliance database is supplied with the
Microsoft Year 2000 Product Analyzer.
The PC Analyzer download is compact enough to be placed on a
Floppy Disk for easy installation on multiple PC's.
For organizations with a centralized infrastructure the utility
can run without a UI using command line parameter interface. This
interface makes it possible to centralize the location of the Y2K
compliance database as well as the Y2K reports generated on each
machine.
An administrators version of the Product
Analyzer is also available that includes both a network version of
the Product Analyzer for scanning Windows NT based networks from
Windows NT Server and a set of unsupported tools for adding
third-party products to the product database.
System Requirements
You can
run the Microsoft Year 2000 Product Analyzer on any computer with
the following characteristics:
- At
least 2 MB of free hard-disk space to run Setup
- An
Intel 486 or greater processor, 25 MHz or faster
- DEC
Alpha (Note that the minimum version of Windows NT for the DEC
Alpha is Windows NT 4.0.)
- One
of the following operating systems:
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows NT 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
To run the wizard
version of the Microsoft Year 2000 Product Analyzer, your computer
must also have a mouse.
New Database
To
download the latest version of the Microsoft Year 2000 Product
Analyzer Database please follow these steps:
- Run the Microsoft Year 2000 Product Analyzer
- Choose Custom from the Select Wizard Options page
- On the Update Database page, ensure that the "Update database
only if newer version is available" option is selected
- Continue with the wizard and the new database will
automatically be downloaded
After the new database is
successfully downloaded, it will replace your original database.The
Product Analyzer will automatically check your database each time
you run it and will offer to update it from the web if it is older
than 2 weeks.
Following the steps outlined above is the recommended process for
getting the latest PC Analyzer database from Microsoft. However, we
also provide to you the ability to download the database
independently of the PC Analyzer. Please click here for
more information.
Installation Guide
You
install the Microsoft Year 2000 Product Analyzer when you run the
installation program (download by clicking on one of the links
below) which prompts you for an installation directory. After you
install the Microsoft Year 2000 Product Analyzer, your Windows 95,
Windows 98, or Windows NT 4.0 computer will have a Microsoft Year
2000 Product Analyzer group on the Start menu containing the wizard
version of the program and this Readme.txt file. Computers running
Windows NT 3.51 will have a group in Program Manager with icons for
the wizard and this Readme.txt file.
In addition, the command-line version of the program will be
available in the installation directory you specified.
To
download the Administrators
Version, click the link below:
Administrators
Version (631k) / Important
Information
To
download the Intel or DEC Alpha Microsoft Year 2000
Product
Analyzer click one of the links below:
DEC Alpha (530k)
English Only
NOTE: On computers running Windows NT, you must have
administrative privileges to install or uninstall this program. This
includes having administrative privileges the first time you start
your computer after installing or uninstalling this program.
Microsoft Year 2000 Product Analyzer
Support
Microsoft product support services has prepared Article
Q224328: PCA -Year 2000 Product Analyzer. This article summarizes
answers to the most frequently asked questions regarding the
Microsoft Year 2000 Product Analyzer. Please review this article at
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q224/3/28.asp.
No-charge usability support is available via email on Microsoft
Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure Center. To receive Standard no
charge phone support for this component, in the U.S. , please call
425-635-7179 6:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Pacific Time, Monday through
Friday, excluding holidays. In Canada, please call (905) 568-2294,
8:00am to 8:00pm Eastern time, Monday through Friday, excluding
holidays. Note: Toll charges may apply. Technical
support for this tool after hours is provided on a Pay-Per-Incident
basis. In the U.S. and Canada for $35 US per incident, call (800)
936-5700 24 hours a day, seven days a week, excluding holidays.
Support fees for the (800)# calls will be billed to your VISA,
MasterCard, or American Express card.
For support information outside the U.S. and Canada, contact your
local subsidiary. Phone numbers for Microsoft Subsidiaries are
subject to change. For the most recent listing, please see the
Support Online Web site at http://support.microsoft.com/support/.
If there is no Microsoft subsidiary office in your country, contact
the establishment from which you obtained your Microsoft product.
Microsoft's support services are subject to Microsoft's
then-current prices, terms, and conditions, which are subject to
change without notice.
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