Wife 1.0 - Computer Software Warning

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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 productbrochure 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
8.3, 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 to 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 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 beenknown 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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