An Update on GirlFriend 1.0

    Last year a friend of mine upgraded GirlFriend 12.4 to Wife 1.0 and found that it's a memory hog, leaving very little system resources for other applications.  He also noticed that Wife 1.0 is spawning Child-Processes, which further consume 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 7.2 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 1.1:

    A "Don't remind me again" button, Minimize button, An install shield feature that allows Wife 1.1 to be uninstalled at any time without the loss of cache and other system resources, An option to run the network driver in promiscuous mode which would allow the system 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 2.7.  Even here, however, I found many problems:

    Apparently you cannot install GirlFriend 2.7 on top of GirlFriend    1.5.  You must uninstall GirlFriend 1.5 first.   Other users say this    is a long standing bug which I should have been aware of.

    Apparently different versions of GirlFriend have conflicts over shared use of the I/O port.  Simultaneous use almost never works.   To make matters worse, the uninstall program for GirlFriend 1.5 doesn't work very well, leaving undesirable traces of the application in the system.  All versions of GirlFriend continually popup little annoying messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0.

<<Bug Warning>>

    If you try to install Mistress 1.1 before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 deletes all MS Money files and performs an auto-uninstall.   Reports have been filed regarding this feature, but at this time there is no known solution.

    After Wife 1.0 performs an uninstall, Mistress 1.1 may now refuse to install, claiming insufficient system resources.

<<<Bug Work-Arounds>>>

    To avoid the above bug, try installing Mistress 1.1 at a different location and never run any file transfer application such as Laplink 6.0.

    Mistress 1.1 should be considered shareware.   Shareware applications have been known to carry viruses that may also infect you and the Wife 1.0.  Care should be taken when using shareware.

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