Girlfriend 1.0 -> Wife 1.0
MEMORANDUM RE: Computer Software Warning
Last year a friend of mine upgraded GirlFriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0 and
found that it's a memory hog leaving very little system resources
for other applications. He is only now noticing that Wife 1.0 also
is spawning Child-Processes which are further consuming valuable
resources. No mention of this particular phenomena was included in
the productbrochure or the documentation, though other users have
informed him that this is to be expected due to the nature of the
application. Not only that, Wife 1.0 installs itself such that it
is always launched at system initialization where it can monitor
all other system activity. He's finding that some applications such
as PokerNight 8.3, BeerBash 2.5, and PubNight 7.0 are no longer
able to run in the system at all, crashing the system when selected
(even though they always worked fine before). At installation, Wife
1.0 provides no option as to the installation of undesired Plug-Ins
such as MotherInLaw 55.8 and BrotherInLaw Beta release. Also,
system performance seems to diminish with each passing day.
Some features he'd like to see in the upcoming Wife 2.0. - A 'Don't
remind me again' button - Minimize button - An install shield
feature that allows Wife 2.0 to be installed with the option to
uninstall at anytime without the loss of cache and other system
resources. - An option to run the network driver in promiscuous
mode which would allow the systems hardware probe feature to be
much more useful.
I myself decided to avoid all of the headaches associated with Wife
1.0 by sticking with GirlFriend 2.0. Even here, however, I found
many problems. Apparently you cannot install GirlFriend 2.0 on top
of GirlFriend 1.0. You must uninstall GirlFriend 1.0 first. Other
users say this is a long standing bug which I should have been
aware of. Apparently the versions of GirlFriend have conflicts over
shared use of the I/O port. You think they would have fixed such a
stupid bug by now. To make matters worse, The uninstall program for
GirlFriend 1.0 doesn't work very well leaving undesirable traces of
the application in the system. Another thing that sucks - all
versions of GirlFriend continually pop up little annoying messages
about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0
***** BUG WARNING ******** Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug. If you
try to install Mistress 1.1 before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0
will delete MSMoney files before doing the uninstall itself. Then
Mistress 1.1 will refuse to install, claiming insufficient
resources.
*** BUG WORK-AROUNDS *************** To avoid the above bug, try
installing Mistress 1.1 on a different system and never run any
file transfer applications such as LapLink 6.0. Also, beware of
similar shareware applications that have beenknown to carry viruses
that may affect Wife 1.0. Another solution would be to run Mistress
1.0 via a UseNet provider under an anonymous name. Here again,
beware of the viruses which can accidentally be downloaded from the
UseNet.