Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 21:12:08 03/05/99
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Hi Fernando: This is the funiest post I've seen in a long time. I hope ICD post this on the Computer Resource Center. And they should have awards for stuff like this, like those little statues that the actors get! Just one word of advise. Don't let girlfriend 2.0, Wife 1.0 or Mistress 1.1 see this, because if they do, Your Hard Disk (Your Head or maybe something down lower!?), is going to wind up totally virus infected, followed by a complete disk platter crash! & remember, always practice safe computer chess... mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict! On March 05, 1999 at 09:31:04, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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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