Ismahan Posted November 5, 2001 Last year a friend of mine upgrade 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 cunsuming 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 application such as PokerNight 10.3, BeerBash 2.5, and PubNight 9.2 are no longer able to run, crashing the system when selected (even though they always worked very well before). At installation, Wife 1.0 automatically installs undesired Plug-Ins such as MotherInLaw 61.4 and sisterInLaw Beta release. As a consequence system performence seems to diminish with each passing day. Some feature he'd like to see in the upcoming Wife 2.0 A "Don't remind me again" button Minimize button An install sheild feature that allows Wife 2.0 to be installed with the options to be uninstall at anytime with out the loss of cache and other system resources An option to run network driver in promiscuous mode which would allow the system hardware probe feature to have greater use I myself decided to avoid all the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by sticking with Girlfriend 3.0. Even here, however, I found many problems. Apparently you cannot install Girlfriend 3.0 on top of Girlfiend 2.0. There is no option button to just upgrade. Then only you install Girlfriend 3.0. You must uninstall Girlfriend 2.0 first. Other users say that this is a long standing bug which I should have been aware of. Apparently that versions of Girlfriend have conflicts over shared use of the I/O port. You think thay would have fixed such a stupid bug by now. To make matters worse, the uninstall program for Girlfriend 2.0 doesn't work very well leaving undesirable traces of the application in the system. Another annoying problem -- all versions of Girlfriend continually pop up annoying messages about the advantages to upgrading to Wife 1.0 ***** BUG WARNING ***** Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug. If you try to install Mistress 1.0 before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before executing a self - uninstallation. Then Mistress 1.0 will refuse to be install in the system due to lack of resources. ***** BUG WORK-AROUND ***** To avoid the above bug, try installing Mistress 1.0 on a different system and never run any file transfer application such as Laplink 6.0. Also, beware of similar shareware applications that have been know 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hibo Posted March 18, 2002 LOOOOOOOOL GAL ... THAT WAS TOO FUNNY.... HAHAHAHAHA.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
