accidently changed computer date-messed up everything

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Greetings,
I was (stupidly) using my computer's calendar to browse through the months
to see when certain dates fell. I was in December 2006 when I got called
away from my desk and forgot what I was doing. I didn't realize the
implications of my carelessness. My McAfee subscription for AV and Firewall
software thinks it is expired (expires in 10/06) and my one and only restore
date is now a December 2006 restore date. Can someone please tell me how to
correct this without restoring? Thank you so much in advance...

Ilene
 
Double click the clock and set back to the proper date, click Apply and
Click OK.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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Hi Wes,

Thank you so much for your reply. I did that yesterday, however, I still
have the future-dated restore and McAfee subscription is still cancelled.
Are there any settings I can change in the registry?

Thanks!

Ilene
 
I expect that you'll have to contact McAfee.

They probably have the subscription set up so that it can't be illicitly
extended by setting back the clock on the PC. (That's a stupid way of
avoiding paying to extend the subscription, but I imagine that people would
try it.)

Or, search the Web for ways to hack the subscription. If the antivirus
application isn't working, be very careful about those warez sites in the
former Soviet Union: they'll plant some trojans on your system.

A disk reformat and reinstall of XP (and everything else) should fix it
(although there might be a problem if McAfee uses product activation), but
that's rather drastic.

Best of luck.


Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
 
Ron, Bob and everyone,

Thank you all so much for helping me! I really appreciate you taking the
time to lend a hand so to speak. I am going to try to delete the
future-dated restore point, create a new correct restore point, and try again
with McAfee hopefully by using their live chat. Maybe they will take pity on
me. Have a great weekend!!!!

Ilene
 
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