Author: David Dory
Date: 06:04:43 02/14/02
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On February 14, 2002 at 06:28:55, Mike Hood wrote:
>I've been using Fritz 7 ever since its first release, but this week problems
>have occurred that puzzle me. I suspect that the problems are somehow my own
>fault, but despite being "computer literate" I can't solve them myself.
>
>For five days I had been running an engine tournament. Mostly I kept Fritz 7
>minimized while I was doing other stuff, but I occasionally maximized the window
>to see what was going on. Then, after 5 days, I found that I couldn't
>re-minimize the window. "Curious", I thought, so I booted my PC. When I started
>Fritz again the blue start screen was built up VERY slowly... it took about two
>minutes. Eventually I started Fritz again. Then I opened the Windows Explorer,
>and it somehow overlapped with the Fritz display, the mini-icons were displayed
>on top of the Fritz window, ie the Windows integrity was broken. I could no
>longer access the start menu, so I had to hit the reset button.
>
>My first guess was a virus. McAfee showed up nothing, so I'm clean, unless
>there's a brand new virus not included in the latest update patterns.
>
>My second guess was that Fritz 7 was corrupted, so I uninstalled it,
>re-installed from CD, re-installed the update. The same problem.
>
>My third guess is a corrupted system DLL, but I'm reluctant to re-install
>Windows because Fritz 6 still works, and so do all my other programs, as far as
>I can tell. Really weird. I have four questions:
>
>1. Has anyone else had the same problem, either immediately after installing
>Fritz 7 or later?
>2. Does anyone know what the problem is?
>3. Does anyone know how I may have caused it?
>4. Does anyone know to fix it?
I haven't had your problem with Fritz7, but your symptoms indicate to me:
1) You do NOT have a virus, but updating your virus definition file from
the McAfee site and running it again is not a bad idea.
2) My best guess is that either Fritz7 or one of your other programs you
ran during the tournament, has a bug working within the memeory
constraints of your system.
(In my opinion, this is an area of software compatibility that is not
nearly fully tested before the software release.)
My advice is to first re-install Windows, AND consider either increasing your
memory, AND/OR, in your program properties (memory), see if you can increase the
memory available to Fritz7, especially when running minimized.
You may find the problem is with Fritz7, but I suspect the problem in an
interactive one that doesn't happen unless you run Fritz7 minimized with other
programs running in the foreground.
Just my ideas, I have not experienced this with Fritz7, but have with other
programs, when running in the background, in windows. The 16 bit windows are
much worse in this regard than WinNT or Win2000.
Hope this helps and good luck.
Dave
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