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.
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.