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Subject: Re: Chessbase 7 Any comments and / or experience

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 06:53:45 07/31/98

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On July 31, 1998 at 07:25:07, Komputer Korner wrote:

>On July 30, 1998 at 23:38:50, Torstein Hall wrote:
>
>>
>>On July 30, 1998 at 15:42:41, Paul Massie wrote:
>>
>>>Here's another possibility - Since CB7 uses an internet connection and you
>>>mentioned it crashed while downloading, perhaps the problem lies not in the base
>>>NT system, but in the IE addon files.  I have had problems in the past
>>>installing software that depends on IE components.  Since Internet Explorer has
>>>changed several times since NT 4.0 SP3 was released, it is sometimes necessary
>>>to download the latest version of IE from the Microsoft Web site and install it.
>>>It is critical to ensure that the IE files in the system are synchronized
>>>reasonably well with the similar files in the application.
>>
>>I have the same experience when installing Win CE services on a NT machine!
>>MS recomended to remove IE, then install, then reinstall SP 3 and at last
>>reinstall IE 4.0
>>Quite a process to install progs. on the NT beast. :)
>>
>>Torstein
>>>
>>>On July 30, 1998 at 13:04:29, Torstein Hall wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 30, 1998 at 09:59:38, Komputer Korner wrote:
>>>>
>>>>< BIG SNIP >
>>>>>
>>>>>I just loaded the production version of CB 7 on my WIN NT 4 SP3 machine and
>>>>>clicked on the CB7i icon and went to the menu to get CB7 upgrade from ChessBase
>>>>>site  and as it was downloading a file it crashed. It does this repeatedly. I
>>>>>sent the crash log file to Matthias at ChessBase and his reply was to reinstall
>>>>>WIN NT 4. I am NOT going to reinstall my operating system just because one
>>>>>program crashes on it. All my other windows chess programs and almost all the
>>>>>DOS ones run fine on my WIN NT system, so the fault must lie with CB 7. I notice
>>>>>that there was a separate version for CB 6 for WIN NT and wonder why there isn't
>>>>>one for CB 7. I like CB 7 a lot but is there anyone else who is running WIN NT 4
>>>>>with CB 7?
>>>>>--
>>>>>Komputer Korner
>>>>
>>>>I'm not running CB 7 on a NT machine, but I have installed some software on some
>>>>NT monsters and I have several times had to reinstall service pack 3 after
>>>>installing any software that used communication. Perhaps you should try that.
>>>>
>>>>Torstein
>
>
>This just goes to show that a separate CB 7 version should have been made for
>WIN NT 4. The user shouldn't have to do all this just because of 1 program.
>--
>Komputer Korner

I belive this is a NT 4.0 problem, not a Chessbase 7.0 problem! To me it looks
like NT do not protect its critical files!

Torstein




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