Author: Barry Culp
Date: 12:00:50 12/11/99
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On December 11, 1999 at 14:16:16, Keith Kitson wrote: >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 You can also copy the endgame tablebases to your hard drive. If you access the Fritz 6 help facility and search on tablebases you will find the info that is required Barry Culp
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