Author: Keith Kitson
Date: 11:16:16 12/11/99
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On December 11, 1999 at 11:21:47, Alam Khan wrote: >I have Windows 2000, and I installed Fritz6 standard. There are several >problems, I need help with. > >1. It keeps asking for the CD to play, all during the game. I would prefer to >work off the Hard drive but there is no such option. > Presumably it is using the opening book from the CD. You need to ocpy your opening book to the hard drive. Access the book option and select browse opening book. Then rightclick in book window and select copy tree to disc. >2. The installation leaves no trace of it in the add/remove utility of Windows. > I tried to uninstall it but invoking the uninstall utility does not list as an >installed program. Fritz6 itself does not give an uninstall option. > >3. The program looks for the opening book in a particular directory, but the >opening book was not copied to that directory during the installation. > >4. I reinstalled it as custom and checked all the options, and that has not >solved the problem of the requirement of CD in the drive. > >5. After one installation, it would not load: kept making a fatal error and >windows would close it down. I had to reinstall it one more time. > >QUESTION: Has anyone successfully installed Fritz6 on windows 2000/NT so that >it has worked perfectly, without continually asking for the CD? If so I would >truly appreciate help. Please feel free to email the response directly to me in I have installed Fritz6 on NT4 with Sp3 with no problems whatsoever. I am impressed it appears to be so reliable. I've copied tree to disc so all CD access is reduled to endgame tables where applicable. >addition to posting it on the message board. Thanks. > >Sincerely >Alam
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