Installing wife 1.0

[School Councils UK <Jess...>]

This is decidedly sexist - but I am a sucker for a sharp wit!


Installing Wife 1.0

Last year a friend of mine upgraded GirlFriend 6.0 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, crashing the system when selected (even though they always
worked fine before). At installation, Wife 1.0 automatically
installs undesired Plug Ins such as MotherInLaw 55.8 and
BrotherInLaw Beta release. As a consequence 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 have greater use.

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 annoying problem -- all versions of Girlfriend continually
pops up 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 executing a self - uninstallation. Then Mistress 1.1 will
refuse to install, claiming insufficient system 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
accidentally be downloaded from the UseNet.



Jess Gold
Creative Director
Shir Bliss
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