GirlFriend 1.0 and Wife 1.0
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-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 Plug-Ins 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
Minimize button
An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 be installed with the option to uninstall at anytime 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 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 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
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.
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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 accidently be downloaded from the UseNet. |
