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Last year a friend of mine upgraded Girlfriend 1.0 to Wife
1.0 and found that it's now 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 product brochure 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 10.3,
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 plugins 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.
- A Minimize button.
- An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 to be
installed with the option to uninstall at any
time 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'd think they would have fixed that 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 popup 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 system resources.
******* BUG WORKAROUNDS ********
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 been known 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.
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