Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 10:06:46 03/06/99
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Hmm, Girlfriend 1.0 stopped working for me. Evidently it now requires more system resources and will only run on some other guy's system. :( -Tom 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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