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Subject: Re: Fritz 7 and Shredder 6 Interface Conflicts

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 07:47:35 03/03/02

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On March 03, 2002 at 04:45:24, Ian Aston wrote:

>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.


Thanks Ian! I missed this completely! Everything appears in order. Thanks again!

Regards,
 Terry






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