Removing Engines from Chessbase 10
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Removing Engines from Chessbase 10
Hi,
I wonder if anyone else has had this problem and has overcome it.
OK, so I decided to remove a load of engines from Chessbase. I had too many and decided to focus on quality rather than quantity. I know I could have simply made them inactive but, maybe it's OCD or something, I preferred to remove them totally
So, where there was an unistaller I used that. Where not, I deleted the DLL and ENG files in the Engines directory. Where the engine was UCI, I deleted that entry in the Engines.UCI folder.
Guess what! A bunch of engines still show up as active. I can't load them (not found, unsurprisingly). But couldn't get rid of them.
I uninstalled and reinstalled Chessbase.
Same result.
I ununstalled Chessbase and cleaned the registry of all references to Chessbase and the offending engines.
Same result.
It's minor, I know, but really bugging me. Is there something else that I should try?
Many thanks
Keith
I wonder if anyone else has had this problem and has overcome it.
OK, so I decided to remove a load of engines from Chessbase. I had too many and decided to focus on quality rather than quantity. I know I could have simply made them inactive but, maybe it's OCD or something, I preferred to remove them totally
So, where there was an unistaller I used that. Where not, I deleted the DLL and ENG files in the Engines directory. Where the engine was UCI, I deleted that entry in the Engines.UCI folder.
Guess what! A bunch of engines still show up as active. I can't load them (not found, unsurprisingly). But couldn't get rid of them.
I uninstalled and reinstalled Chessbase.
Same result.
I ununstalled Chessbase and cleaned the registry of all references to Chessbase and the offending engines.
Same result.
It's minor, I know, but really bugging me. Is there something else that I should try?
Many thanks
Keith
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Actually, I just tried this (32 bit Vista) and it doesn't work!Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:Hi,
Go to the Start button....start the Run icon....type Application Data and press Enter....you will see a ChessBase folder....open it and there you'll find a folder called UCI Engines....open it and delete whatever engine file you want....your problem is solved....
Dr.D
I type run into the search. Run "run" and type "applications data" and get "Windows can't find Applications"!
Any other ideas?
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application no s on the endKeith317 wrote:Actually, I just tried this (32 bit Vista) and it doesn't work!Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:Hi,
Go to the Start button....start the Run icon....type Application Data and press Enter....you will see a ChessBase folder....open it and there you'll find a folder called UCI Engines....open it and delete whatever engine file you want....your problem is solved....
Dr.D
I type run into the search. Run "run" and type "applications data" and get "Windows can't find Applications"!
Any other ideas?
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- Dr.Wael Deeb
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- Joined: Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:33 pm
- Location: Amman,Jordan