XP no longer displays dates

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The strangest thing happened yesterday. First things first. Windows XP
Professional SP2. Here's the problem...

All, and I mean all, date information, date displays, even the date from the
CMD window is corrupt/missing. Any time the date needs to be displayed on my
system, I either get nothing (just the time), or odd ascii characters. Doing
a "dir" command in the CMD window gives me "The parameter is incorrect."
instead of the date. Windows explorer (in details view) shows only times for
each file.

I discovered that this happened to someone else before. but no one answered
her. Here's the Google Groups message.

<http://groups.google.com/group/micr...3?lnk=st&q=system+date+parameter+is+incorrect>

That's a very good description of my current problem. Can't confirm the
Palm Desktop issue she had though. All other problems she listed are
accurate though.

This happened after a system lockup (firewire issues I think) yesterday.
Windows update won't even let me in, giving me error number 0x8024D002.

I'm REALLY not looking forward to reinstalling my entire system.

Any help is GREATLY appreciated.

matte
 
Have you looked in your Language and Regional Settings application to verify
settings? Its in control panel in classic view.
 
Just did. Clicked the "Customize" button and when I clicked the "Date" tab a
pop-up dialog, well, popped up [heh], and said "One of the files on your
computer may be corrupt or missing. To replace the file, reinstall Windows."

Great. WHICH file. [sigh]

Anyways. Was going to reinstall today. Thought about using System Restore
but when I click one of the bold dates in the calendar, no restore points
appear in the box to the right. I think it's because the computer doesn't
understand the "date" concept and can't sync the database of restore points
to the selected date.

Ah well. At least I don't have to reformat the drive. I'll reply back with
my results for posterity.

Thanx "needlove".

matte
 
Before reinstalling you might try the System File Checker utility. Insert
your Windows CD in a drive, click start > run > type "sfc /scannow" w/o
quotes.
Or during a boot up press F8 to get to the startup options menu and select
Last Known Good Configuration.
silent (e) said:
Just did. Clicked the "Customize" button and when I clicked the "Date"
tab a
pop-up dialog, well, popped up [heh], and said "One of the files on your
computer may be corrupt or missing. To replace the file, reinstall
Windows."

Great. WHICH file. [sigh]

Anyways. Was going to reinstall today. Thought about using System
Restore
but when I click one of the bold dates in the calendar, no restore points
appear in the box to the right. I think it's because the computer doesn't
understand the "date" concept and can't sync the database of restore
points
to the selected date.

Ah well. At least I don't have to reformat the drive. I'll reply back
with
my results for posterity.

Thanx "needlove".

matte

needlove said:
Have you looked in your Language and Regional Settings application to
verify
settings? Its in control panel in classic view.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
"needlove", I'm SOOOOOO sending you love right now. the "sfc" utility
restored whatever file was corrupt or missing and my system is back in
working order... all WITHOUT having to reinstall.

[whew]

just saved me a TON of wear and tear on my psyche.

THANX SOOOOOOO MUCH.

some minor hiccups. when I restarted the computer after completing the sfc
run, it brought up the UI in the classic style, not the luna style. [shrug]
rebooted again and encountered a brief blue screen error (not OF DEATH) that
disappeared before I had a chance to note what it said. a forced reboot
started the computer just fine. logged in (luna style now) and got a
"Registry Recovery" dialog box telling me that one of the files containing
the system's registry data was succesfully recovered.

hmmm. and acrobat 7 professional is now asking me to be reinstalled.
[shrug] I'll just reinstall, no worries. done. hmm. explorer crash and
auto restart. reboot, everything is now okay.

well. I'm up and cooking. thanx again.

matte

needlove said:
Before reinstalling you might try the System File Checker utility. Insert
your Windows CD in a drive, click start > run > type "sfc /scannow" w/o
quotes.
Or during a boot up press F8 to get to the startup options menu and select
Last Known Good Configuration.
Click to expand...
[snip]
 
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