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Hi!
Back in 2017, I once made a quick video about what happens if you set a date where the year exceeds four digits.
I tested all this on Windows XP and the result was not that I was quite impressed, but I was very surprised.
But the system still came out in 2001, more than 20 years have passed, now has long been released Windows 11 and, in principle, it would be nice to check there the presence of this, so to speak, a trick.
In this video, we take a look at how Windows 11 works when installing the 10K year and find out what causes it and why it does so.
So, let's start.
This is the usual version of Windows 11, so there is nothing interesting about it.
If you look at the calendar from the taskbar, you can see that the annual limit is 2121, in fact it's 100 years since the release of Windows 11 - recall, it came out in 2021.
Although in the classic control panel add-on there is a limit to 2099, then flipping through the annual list is simply impossible - I stupidly returns back.
But okay, you can set any year in the system in one simple way.
If you thought about editing the boot.ini file, I hasten to disappoint you - it is not here since Windows Vista, when the new boot loader - Windows Boot Manager came.
And through programs like EasyBCD is not very interesting.
It is not a good idea to edit boot parameters through the registry, because the system rolls everything back during restarts.
Therefore, open a command prompt as administrator and type the command "bcdedit /set optionsedit 1"
BCDEdit is a built-in command line program for managing the BCD configuration file used by the Windows boot loader starting with Vista.
The "/set" function sets some value for the selected boot item to the Windows loader.
But we have one system installed on the virtual machine, so this will all apply to Windows 11.
The "optionsedit" parameter specifies to enable such a setting as "Change options before full system startup". It can be set to 0, 1, yes or no.
That is to say, on and off.
In our case, we include it simply by writing the number 1.
After all this, the system can be safely restarted. But before rebooting, we set the date of December 31 and the time close to midnight.
And during the boot, instead of the Windows logo, you get a screen like this where you can set your parameters before starting the system - reminiscent of Windows XP with editing the BOOT.INI file.
Only there we did it in the system itself, but here it happens in the loader.
To set a year without asking the system to display the date from the BIOS, we just add the /YEAR= parameter at the end and write the year we want.
Press Enter, the Windows logo appears, and boot begins...
...and after logging in we see the year we set.
But there is one thing: the system begins to slow down very much, and in some places it is simply unbearable.
In Task Manager, the CPU just hits the ceiling.
The system even hanging on some simple actions.
Even opening Paint from Explorer is already a high-level task for the system.
The calendar and any network or sound settings simply cannot be opened.
They simply do not show up, although I have already clicked on them, and more than once.
But the Start menu works - already not bad. However, the system is holding up.
If you look at the Task Manager, the culprits of this celebration are almost the entire Windows networking stack and the services group, which is responsible for synchronizing and storing user account data.
And now that we've worked it all out, we're waiting for the 10K Year.
Well, dear friends, Happy New Year! I wish you happiness, health...
okay, that's not what we're talking about.
All in all, the system has moved past the last four-digit year and the first, beautiful and five-digit year, the ten-thousandth, has come.
But to all the hangs and other problems, a new one is added: unstable explorer.exe work
Explorer starts to hang and reboot cyclically. It works for a while, then suddenly hangs and restarts abruptly, and so on in a circle.
Applications at least open, but only from the task manager. For example, I opened Paint and now just write something random for the test.
When saving the file, Paint suddenly tells us that "The parameter is incorrect".
Where exactly, why - the system does not explain
Notepad here opens and saves files without any problems. And in the properties of the text file here correctly displays the date of creation and last change: January 1, 10000.
The classic control panel here works, but its UWP-version does not work: works for a couple of seconds, hangs and exits.
ha-ha, classic...
To go on the Internet with such a date is something out of the category of stupid and absurd, as we simply will not let us in and will say a la "hey your clock is ahead of the world, but quickly put it right"
Now I want to see a photo, the app "Photos" at least opens, but something it does not show photos.
Either Paint didn't save that photo, or it's a bug after all. I hope it's the former. [since the file is 0KB, the application should have shown this inscription]
And if you request file information from this application, it instantly crashes.
On the whole, the system somehow, but alive.
But to be honest, Windows XP was much more stable than Windows 11 - yes, XP also hanging in this situation, but at least it tried to respond to user requests despite the load, and after a reboot everything rolled back and the system felt great.
Okay, back to the topic
If you restart the system, it's even worse - there comes out a complete "brick", the system just hangs during startup, but I can still move the cursor.
And over time, simply knocked down the screen resolution and the system, to put it mildly, begins to feel awful - even the cursor frame rate works at 1 FPS :D
Such a bug these days is just some kind of common trick, because first of all: to 10000 is like walking to Moscow (russian joke), although probably even much more;
secondly, I, and you too, simply will not live to see this moment. So there's nothing to worry about.
And why does this happen, why does the system behave this way set at 10K year?
The point is that when the year 10000 occurs, the systems will start to perceive it as year zero, because the systems year is specified in four digits.
And, in fact, that's how it works.
In addition to the 10000 year, there are many other interesting annual values at which various interesting things happen.
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