Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 06:31:04 03/05/99
Hi all: I just received this email and I think it deserves to be shared by you. This is it: >Last year a friend of mine upgraded girlfriend 6.0 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 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 Poker Night 10.3, Beer Bash >2.5, and Pub Night 7.0 are no longer able to run, crashing the system >when selected (even though they always worked fine before). > >At installation, Wife 1.0 automatically installs undesired Plug-Ins such as >Mother-In-Law 55.8 and Brother-In-Law Beta release. As a consequence, 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. > >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 annoying problem: all versions of Girlfriend continually pop up >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 executing a self-uninstallation. Then >Mistress 1.1 will refuse to install, claiming insufficient system >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 >UseNet provider under an anonymous name. Here again, beware of the >viruses which can accidentally be downloaded from the UseNet. > > >
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