Bugs in Wife 1.0
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When you're planning those computer upgrades, you'll need to know
this sort of thing.....
     
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 his applications. Furthermore, though operation with DOS is fine,
Wife 1.0 doesn't do some WINDOWS operations.  He is also noticing
that Wife 1.0 is spawning child-processes which are further consuming 
valuable resources.
     
No mention of this particular phenomenon 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 initialisation 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 at all as 
Wife 1.0 crashes the system when they're selected (even though they 
always worked before).  At installation, Wife 1.0 provides no option to 
uninstall 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.:

Minimize button.

An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 to be installed with
the option to uninstall at any time without the loss of cache and 
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.
     
You can avoid all of the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by 
sticking with GirlFriend 2.0.  Even here, however, there are 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 you should be aware of.
     
Apparently the versions of GirlFriend have conflicts over shared use 
of the I/O port.  You'd 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 on 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

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 been known 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.