| Microsoft Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure
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| 2000Tools Group Inc. |
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In the continued
effort to provide you with Year 2000 remediation tools, below is a
list of companies that offer Year 2000 remediation tools and may be
able to assist you in your Year 2000 remediation efforts. For a tool
to be listed on this site does not indicate an endorsement or
recommendation on the part of Microsoft for either the manufacturer,
its products or the underlying technologies being used. You will
need to do your own assessment to determine if the tools offered
meet your needs. For information regarding these companies or their
Year 2000 solutions, please contact the companies directly.
The
extent of the problems that may occur if a computer's clocks fail to
recognize the Year 2000 is hard to quantify. Predictions range from
the relatively minor to the apocalyptic. But, if organizations fail
to address the Millennium bug, products and services that rely on
computers to function efficiently will undoubtedly be at risk.
2000TOOLS Scan + will test and, if possible, fix the three
clocks that reside in the computer chips on your PC.
The vast majority (about 98%) of PCs have an RTC that only stores
the date's last two digits (i.e. the year) and has a separate fixed
value for the century. That value is set at 19 for the current
century. When the century changes, this value will remain at 19. If
the BIOS, Operating Systems, and any programs that use the RTC to
get the date do not allow for this, they will give false information
in the 21st century, wreaking havoc in many different ways. Scan +
will test the RTC, the BIOS clock and the System clock to see if
they will not only roll over, but also whether the computer will
recognize that the Year 2000 is a leap year.
2000TOOLS Group, Inc. was founded in 1996 to provide corporations
and consumers with professional Year 2000 software solutions, audit
processes, project management and legal service support. 2000TOOLS
has offices in the following locations: Buenos Aires, Coral Springs,
Milwaukee, London, San Juan, Washington D.C, and affiliate offices
in Australia and Mexico.
The Scan + features are the following:
Test û Quickly and Easily Tests a PC's
BIOS/RTC/System Clock with the self-bootable 3.5"diskette that can
function with systems running: DOS, Windows 3.x, 95/98, NT, IBM
OS/2 or UNIX. The following 7 tests will be performed:
- Real Time Clock(RTC)/CMOS roll over
test;
- BIOS Clock roll over test;
- System Clock roll-over test;
- Active CMOS changeover test;
- Year 2000 Leap Year test;
- BIOS Writeback to CMOS/RTC; and
- Power-on/Power-off date retention
test.
- Fix û If required the Scan + program can
Quickly and Easily Fix your PC for Y2K. This feature is user
determined. The Fix can function with systems running: DOS,
Windows 3.x or Windows 95/98 (If you need a Y2K Fix for: Windows
NT, IBM OS/2 or UNIX, please see our Scan ISA Millennium Board).
- Test ALL 3 physical Clocks in a
PC
- AMS Scan + is a Level 5 (highest)
Testing Tool
- Runs Native in DOS
- Ability to Test more than one system
without a License Expiring
- The Fix Component is User
Controlled
- Prints a Y2K Certificate of Compliance
in either Test or Fix Phase
- The Certificate captures the Serial
Number of the PC's Hard Drive
- The tool will notify the user if it can
not fix a system
- Will warn User if they remove or tamper
with the TSR fix
- Ability to re-apply the fix if the PC
hard drive fails
- The tool is easy and straight-forward to
use
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