I got a new motherboard since my previous one died for no reason.
Everything came up fine, except for messenger which couldn't connect.
The troubleshooter seemed to run okay, but it wouldn't connect.

Turns out the problem was - get this: I accidentally set the year to 2007.

WTF does THAT have to do with anything? I guess cookies/certificates were immediately expiring or something.


anyway, thought it would make an interesting thread.

- Frank

 

 

I think we need to contact John Connor and have him come back to the year 2006 and terminate your PC....

 

if you had one of the beta versions, maybe it was set to expire sometime in 06?

 

Bizarro use error?

 

Believe it or not the same thing just happened to me. I've been planning a trip so i've been using my windows calendar as a guide and accidently set the month to October, all of a sudden I was getting error reports that my antivirus and spyware blockers were out of date. Had a bastard of a time figuring out why.