Can a handle be changed?
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Yes, go to the header of a page and click on your user name. Then click Change User Name...
You should put your old name in your signature for a little while. Hard to identify someone who changes avatars AND names. 
"The artist formerly known as __________"
"The artist formerly known as __________"
I am sure that means born in 1941.41 is a "coot"?
Yep, 1941. I'm going to try and change it again in 7 days. I wanted to change it to Radioguy41 but it kept burping for some reason.
Hmmm changing handle.... hadn't considered that... oh the possibilities..... 
Hmmm changing handle.... hadn't considered that... oh the possibilities.....
Gonna add an X to the end of your userid?
As an IT professional it burns me when muggels refuse to use full dates. Have we forgotten Y2K already?
And I'll pass along a friendly tip: In Windows Control Panel for Regional Settings, go into the Date & Time format, Advanced, and change the default range for a two-digit year to be more appropriate for the current century. Right now, by default, Windows uses 1925-2024 for the assumed range for a two-digit date. We're only eight years away from ordinary users typing in the current year and getting "1925" instead. I use "1985-2084" on my Windows installations because that covers anything during my professional lifetime.
And I'll pass along a friendly tip: In Windows Control Panel for Regional Settings, go into the Date & Time format, Advanced, and change the default range for a two-digit year to be more appropriate for the current century. Right now, by default, Windows uses 1925-2024 for the assumed range for a two-digit date. We're only eight years away from ordinary users typing in the current year and getting "1925" instead. I use "1985-2084" on my Windows installations because that covers anything during my professional lifetime.
Agree. BTW - do you happen to know why Windows 9 doesn't exist? Was it really because some software from the remote past thought it was Windows 95 or 98 instead?
Did u say Jeep ....
I cant seem to let go of my 1963
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I cant seem to let go of my 1963
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Twasn't a date, twas a handle. As a 38 year IT Pro (now semi-retired) the Y2K issue was the most over-blown issue in the history of computers. Essentially nothing happened, despite all the dire predictions. The electrical grid didn't shut down, nor did bank ATM's, the Internet, traffic lights, or dept store cash registers. I did, however, earn a good living Y2K "proofing" systems in anticipation of the looming disaster.
[OFFTOPIC]Most of our IT and PA systems were based on OpenVMS which can handle dates into the 3,700th century, so I wasn't worried about them. However, the application programmers who used two-digit dates on production records, financial IDs, never thought about, "oh, yeah, PO00xxxxxxx... won't come after PO99xxxxxxx" until the Y2K buzz started. I was taking it into account on the systems I was designing back in 1985 when I got started so all of my stuff was fine. It was the systems we paid good money for that the vendors then charged $$$ to fix their short-sightedness.[/OFFTOPIC]
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