Last year a friend of mine upgraded from GirlFriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0 and
found that it's a memory hog, leaving very little system resources
available for other applications.
He is now noticing that Wife 1.0 is also 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). During
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 the headache 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 that I should have known about. Apparently the versions of
Girlfriend have conficts over shared use of the I/O port. You'd 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 -- 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 this 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.
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