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Girlfriend v1.0
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-Processess
which are further consuming valuable resources.
No mention of this particular phenomena was included in the pocket
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 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 dimish with each passing day.
The features he'd like to see in the upcoming Wife 2.0 include:
- 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 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 Girlfirend 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 been known to
carry viruses that may affect Wife 1.0.
Another solution would be to run Mistress 1.0 via a UserNet provider under
an anonymous name. Here again, beware of the viruses which can
accidentally be downloaded from the UserNet.