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Subject: Re: Fritz 6 installation, Win 2000/NT, and CD required for Play

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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