Date format problem in non-English Windows 2000

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Shannon Jacobs

Guessing it's another language-specific problem from my
Japanese version of Windows 2000, but the date fields (for
example, the date of the signature file) appear with some
garbage in the first part, which is probably for the
month. Don't see anything related in the FAQs or in any
other posts on this server.
 
This beta won't necessarily work in other locales or languages other than
English.

You might check to be sure that the date formats are set to the very first
choice in the drop-down box, which I believe is the default.

There are risks here. For some users the beta will not install--stating
that the expiration date has already passed. For others, the expiration
date occurs unexpectedly (i.e. early!)

Others have reported odd characters in other fields--it may depend on the
date format which field they appear in.
 
I couldn't find the "drop-down box" you are referring to.
Nothing apparently relevant in Options or anywhere else I
looked. Where should I be searching?

When I was looking at the advanced tools, I noticed that
the LSP results often say "thrid-party LSP" where they
mean "third". Yeah, I know it's a beta, but still...

Anyway, so far I didn't see anything to be impressed by. I
noticed it apparently complains about Spybot S&D as being
unrecognized, which is kind of monopolistically rude of
Microsoft, but not surprising. A lot of the advanced tools
recognized Microsoft's own files, but without providing
any useful information. I also ran a quick and full scan,
and neither of them discovered anything. I already use
Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware, and some people said this one
might find some more spyware, but it didn't.
 
I meant in the Windows settings, not those of Microsoft Antispyware.

In my XP SP2, these are:

Control panel, date, time, language and regional options
regional and language options, Click Customize, date tab, short date format
and long date format.

Microsoft Antispyware's real-time protection is quite different from the
free versions of Ad-aware and from Spybot Search and destroy.

In addition, in objective comparative ratings, its predecessor product did
better than the competition, although most folks recommend running two
products, still.
 
I've got the same problem. I'm running english version of
Windows XP Pro SP1, regional settings set to Russian.
Within MS AntiSpyware date is being displayed
incorrectly, with some garbage instead of month, just
like if I didn't have cyrillic font installed.
 
I've got the same problem. I'm running english version of
Windows XP Pro SP1, regional settings set to Russian.
Within MS AntiSpyware date is being displayed
incorrectly, with some garbage instead of month, just
like if I didn't have cyrillic font installed.
 
Thanks, I tried that but the only relevant option was for
Western calendar with English display, and it didn't help.
(First option on the Japanese system is actually for the
Japanese calendar with Japanese, but the default is the
second option, the Western calendar in Japanese.) The
format this anti-spyware program is trying to use doesn't
seem to correspond to any of the system-level options you
referred to.

Anyway, you should just file this under "bug report". It's
not worth worrying more about such a minor issue,
especially in this awkward Web-based newsgroup approach. I
tried to figure out the part about using OE, but couldn't
find the "usual" information, and concluded Microsoft must
be trying to discourage OE's use here.

And yes, I know that the product was highly rated before
Microsoft bought it. That's not to say it will survive the
transition, even though Microsoft has a better-than-
average track record in harvesting acquired technology.
The real-time protection may be better, but I'm externally
required to use something else for that on most of my
systems. All in all, much to early to make a firm
judgment, but so far it looks like #3 for my purposes.
 
Ahh--sorry--I've never looked at a Japanese system, so I didn't realize that
the options are different.

Localization issues have not been addressed in the distributed builds, so I
don't know of a workaround.

I can't predict when a version localized for Japanese versions of Windows
will be available, I'm afraid.
 
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