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Subject: Re: Fritz 7 and Shredder 6 Interface Conflicts

Author: Ian Aston

Date: 01:45:24 03/03/02

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On March 03, 2002 at 00:42:51, Terry McCracken wrote:

>Has anyone else here had the problem I'm experiencing?
>
>I intstalled Fritz 7 and Shredder 6 tonight.
>
>Frankly, I feel Chessbase has made some annoying errors concerning the identical
>GUI's as whichever programme is installed last the GUI at least the Fritz 6
>style GUI reamains mostly Fritz 7 if it's intalled last and Shredder 6 does of
>course the same thing to Fritz 7 if it's installed last.
>
>This has nothing to do with the patch for Fritz 7/Shredder 6 either.
>
>Does anyone know a fix/solution? Right now Fritz 7's intereface dominates in the
>Fritz 6 style GUI and several features that should be accessable by Shredder 6
>like the Shredder Mark for example does't show up only the Fritz Mark!
>
>When I insert the CD for Shredder it says Shredder 6 but it is dominated by
>Fritz 7 instead!
>
>Any ideas anyone? I can't see how I can change this other than unistalling and
>reinstalling just reversing the situation, so that isn't an alternative!
>
>I've not yet tried Shredder's own UCI to see if that helps but really this
>shouldn't be happening!
>
>Disappointed with Chessbase for such silly bugs!
>
>Also the Auto-Run can stop working and it can be difficult to remove folders if
>you uninstall these programmes as you get a message, access denied cannot delete
>folders  as their contents are gone or moved! This can happen to the shortcuts
>on the desktop as well, reading access denied #1026
>
>So I wound up installing and uninstalling until I could clean up the empty
>folders.
>
>Heck, Fritz 6 is mostly trouble free, I almost hate the fact I got Fritz 7 and
>Shredder 6!
>
>They just share too much in common! No wonder this interface conflicts!
>
>Terry

Have you tried the following:-

Menu > Tools > Options > Version

You can then select either Fritz7 GUI or Shredder6 GUI from a drop down list.



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