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Upgrading to Wife 1.0
KarenG Posted: Jul 23, 2003 06:16 PM+
KarenG MEMBER SINCE: 6/01 TOTAL POSTS : 412 WEDDING DATE: Feb 05, 2000
Posted: Jul 23, 2003 06:16 PM bride-minus.png

Upgrading to Wife 1.0

You may have seen this on the internet before...its very funny...especially if you are into computers.



Upgrading to Wife 1.0

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 the 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 on the system at all, causing the system to lockup when launched (even though the apps worked fine before).

Wife 1.0 provides no installation options. Thus, the installation of undesired plug-ins such as Mother-in-law 55.8 and the Brother-in-law Beta is 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:

A 'don't remind me again' button.
Minimize button.

Ability to delete the 'headache' file

An install feature that provides an option to uninstall 2.0 version without loss loss of other system resources.

An option to run the network driver in 'promiscuous mode' allowing the the system's Hardware Probe feature to be much more useful/effective.

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. Guess that explains what happened to versions 1 and 2.

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 have annoying little messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0!

VIRUS ALERT

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. Once that happens, Mistress 1.1 won't install and you will get an 'insufficient resources' error message. 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.

FYI: Don't even think about a shared directory!!!!!!!!!

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Sasha96 Posted: Jul 23, 2003 10:04 PM+
Sasha96 MEMBER SINCE: 6/02 TOTAL POSTS : 3296 WEDDING DATE: Apr 12, 2003
Posted: Jul 23, 2003 10:04 PM bride-minus.png

Re: Upgrading to Wife 1.0

That is soooo funny! Thanks!
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Samanthas Mom Posted: Jul 24, 2003 08:52 AM+
Samanthas Mom MEMBER SINCE: 12/01 TOTAL POSTS : 14106 WEDDING DATE: Aug 25, 2002
Posted: Jul 24, 2003 08:52 AM bride-minus.png

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