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.
The features he'd like to see in the upcoming Wife 2.0
include:
- 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 -- 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.
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.