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> >-For you married guys
> >
> >*** ORIGINATED BY BCOOK@EROLS.COM ON 07:45PM 01/10/1997 ***
> >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 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 of which I should have been aware.
> >Apparently the versions of Girlfriend have conficts 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.
> >
> >*** ANNOTATED BY LIZ ON 11:55AM 01/22/1997 ***
> >
> >
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