| Microsoft Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure
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| Year 2000 Tools |
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In the continued
effort to provide you with Year 2000 remediation tools, Microsoft
offers a list of companies that offer Year 2000 remediation tools
and may be able to assist you in your Year 2000 remediation efforts.
For this 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 this
company or its Year 2000 solutions, please contact the company
directly.
DateWise, Ltd
sales@dateWise.com
http://www.datewise.com/
DateWise RegDump
DateWise
RegDump provides an inexpensive second opinion on what commercial
off the shelf (COTS) software has been installed on PCs by dumping
information from the Windows Registry and desktop to files for
analysis over a network. This capability works on Windows 95, 98 and
NT 4.
DateWise
RegDump also provides a computation directly on the BIOS ROM chip to
identify identical BIOS's over a network (limited to Windows 98, 95,
3.x or earlier O/Ss). This saves time by allowing you to know which
PCs have truly identical BIOS's. Testing only need be performed on a
sample of each group identified by the tool.
DateWise, Ltd. specializes in providing technology to
supplement capabilities of other tool manufacturers. RegDump will
provide needed assurance that some application has not been missed
being identified by using different techniques to identify COTS
packages than other tools. It will also cut the time required to
fully test BIOS's.
DateWise
RegDump obtains COTS information on products installed through
Windows from MyComputer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE. In addition, it
obtains information from the Windows Explorer user interface (i.e.
anything available by clicking somewhere on the desktop menus).
DateWise RegDump also tells you when the applications were last
accessed, so time is not wasted remediating applications that are
not used.
DateWise, Ltd. is committed to the belief that every PC BIOS
must be checked through a test that includes rebooting the PC to
determine how the PC will boot after the turn of the century. Any
test that does not include rebooting is testing the underlying data
structures without testing the BIOS code itself. It assumes that
programmers who wrote/modified the BIOS code, always wrote Y2K
compliant code. If that were a valid assumption, we would not be
having a Y2K problem today.
DateWise, Ltd. also recognizes that manufacturers have
tweaked BIOS's without changing identification information, so
merely obtaining serial numbers from BIOS's is inaccurate. Our
process performs a direct computation on the BIOS ROM memory
allowing classification to be accomplished without needlessly
retesting truly identical BIOS's on different PCs. Only one sample
PC from each group need be tested.
DateWise
RegDump does not determine if a BIOS is Y2K compliant, it determines
only which ones are identical so effort is not wasted testing truly
identical BIOS's.
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