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Wife 1.0
Some handy tips
before installation
Wife 1.0
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
productbrochure 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.
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