FNG - is this the one?
DISCRETION ADVISED WHEN UPGRADING!
Last year a friend of mine upgraded from Girlfriend 4.0 to Wife 1.0
and found that it's a memory hog leaving few system resources for
other applications. He is also now noticing that Wife 1.0 is also
spawning Child-Processes which are further consuming valuable
resources. No mention of this particular phenomenon was included in
the product documentation, though other users have informed me that
this is to be expected due to the nature of the application.
Not only that, Wife 1.0 installs itself so that it is always launched
at system initialization where it can monitor all other system
activity. Some applications such as PokerNite 10.3, Bachelor Party 2.5
and PubNite 7.0 are no longer able to run in the system at all,
causing the system to lockup when launched (even though these
applications worked fine before).
Wife 1.0 provides no installation options. Thus the installation of
the undesired plug-ins such as Mother-In-Law 55.8 and the
Brother-in-law Beta in unavoidable. Also, system performance seems to
diminish with each passing day.
Some features my friend would like to see in the upcoming Wife 2.0
are:
A "Don't remind me again" button;
Minimize button;
An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 to be installed with
the option of uninstalling at any time without the loss of Cache and
other system resources; and
An option to run the network driver in "promiscuous mode" which would
allow the system's Hardware Probe feature to be much more useful.
I myself wish I had decided to avoid all of the headaches associated
with Wife 1.0 by sticking with Girlfriend 3.0. Even here, however, I
have found many problems. Apparently you cannot install Girlfriend 4.0
on top of Girlfriend 3.0. You must uninstall Girlfriend 3.0 first,
otherwise the two versions of Girlfriend will have conflicts over
shared use of the I/O port. Other users have told me that this is a
long-standing problem that I should have been aware of.
To make matters worse, the uninstall program for Girlfriend 3.0
doesn't work very well, leaving undesirable traces of the application
in the system.
Another identified problem is that all versions of Girlfriend
continually popup annoying little messages about the advantages of
upgrading to Wife 1.0.
******** BUG WARNING ********
All users should be aware that 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 for
some reason Mistress 1.1 won't install at all, claiming insufficient
resources.
To avoid the aforementioned bug, try installing Mistress 1.1 on a
different system and never run any file transfer applications (such as
Laplink) between the two systems.
