MEMORANDUM RE: Computer Software Warning
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 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.