Author: Michael P. Nance Sr.
Date: 15:32:42 03/08/03
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On March 08, 2003 at 12:34:46, Alastair Scott wrote: >On March 08, 2003 at 08:38:00, Michael P. Nance Sr. wrote: > >>Would someone please clear this up for Me!My version of Fritz 8 is dated Nov >>2002.When I go to the Playchess site and attemp to up-grade thru the >>Query-update ,It says that my version is up to date and no newer version is >>avaiable.Is this correct?If another version exists why won't the server give it >>to me when I log on.I tried to retype my serial number in the "resister'box but >>it said not valid one time and nothing happen the other times I tried.Help me >>out on this.I had the same problem with Fritz 7 tring to up-date on the >>Playchess server and We won't even talk about the problems I had up-dating Fritz >>6.What can I do here?Awaiting to hear from You.>>>>Mike > >After experimentation I've found that there are 4 conditions before the upgrade >will 'take'; > >i. You must have installed an original (27 November 2002) version of F8 without >any of the subsequent semi-official upgrades; > >ii. You must have logged on to playchess.com with a username and password (not >Guest); > >iii. You must have entered the serial number from the front page of the manual >after you logged on but before you tried the upgrade; > >iv. Personal firewalls should be turned off for the duration of the upgrade. > >The answer to 'why' is 'the Fritz 8 upgrade process is a poor piece of work', >sadly. And such convolutions are becoming more common; I found that PGP 8.0 >could not be registered online from within my company and I had to take my >laptop off the network, dial in remotely and try the registration that way >before it could complete! > >Oh for the days of downloading SETUP.EXE and clicking on it ;) > >Alastair i do all of this but when i put the # in its no black to where i can apply its greyed out???tell me whats happening i'm lost.>>>>mike
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