Date Not Displaying Properly

[Guest rocktrng]

I'm running WinXP x64 Professional and have recently noticed a problem with

"dates". When I hover over the time on the start bar ... no date pop-up will

appear displaying the date. When I'm in windows explorer, no date (only

time) appears in the details view for files in any directory/subdirectory

(neither "date created" nor "date modified" fields display dates

created/modified ... just times created/modified). When I look at the

Date/Time Control panel, I see nothing but the number "1" (repeated 12 times)

in the month drop-down list (it should list January, February, March, April,

etc.). The calendar in the control panel appears to be the proper month and

the appropriate day is highlighted.

 

What happened? Anybody got any idea how to fix this one? The problem

persists after a restart.

[Guest Juergen Kluth]

Re: Date Not Displaying Properly

 

Hi,

may be wrong settings in "region and language control" ??

.....its just a try, set it to a similar region for you, try it and then do

it back

regards jk

[Guest rocktrng]

Re: Date Not Displaying Properly

 

Well ... that would have been nice if it had worked ... but no luck. While I

was in the Region & Languages control panel, I clicked on the "customize"

button and then the "date" tab. Almost immediately, it came up with a dialog

window stating that apparently "one of the files on your computer is either

corrupt or missing ... to fix this, reinstall windows." Well crapola!

That's the last thing I really want to do ... spend the next 8-10 hours

reinstalling and updating everything. You'd think it could at least tell you

"WHAT" file is corrupt or missing.

 

Oh and before your post ... I thought gee wouldn't it be nice if I just

might be able to use a "restore point" ... wrong ... it came up with

september's calendar ... but no others .... showed the same restore time on

each bolded September day ... and when I clicked "next" ... you guessed it

.... absolutely nothing happened. Double crapola!

[Guest rocktrng]

Update: Dates Now Displaying Properly

 

Update: Dates Now Displaying Properly

 

Based on the error message displayed in the Region & Languages control panel

after clicking the "customize" button, I inserted my windows XP x64 install

disk, told it to install and then asked it to try to "repair" my

installation. To my surprise, it took my PC back to the equivalent of day 1

+ software installs. After the "repair," dates were properly displaying in

windows explorer and the date now pops up when hovering over the date on the

start bar. I then applied all the security fixes and updated to IE7.

Everything is still working including system restore (I created a new restore

point after doing all the updates). Hope it stays that way.

 

Thanks for the hint to look in the Region & Languages panel.

[Guest Juergen Kluth]

Re: Update: Dates Now Displaying Properly

 

Re: Update: Dates Now Displaying Properly

 

pure coincident

the repair-install made it

fine :-)

jk