Little fun

[Lou of East from West]

Last year a friend of mine upgraded 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 is also spawning
Child-Processes which are further consuming 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 7.0 are no longer able to run, crashing the system when
selected (even though they always worked fine before). At installation,
Wife 1.0
automatically installs undesired Plug-Ins such as MotherInLaw 55.8 and
BrotherInLaw Beta release. As a consequence, system performance seems
to diminish with each passing day.

Some features he'd like to see in the upcoming Wife 2.0:
* A "Don't remind me again" button
* Minimize button
* An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 be
installed
with the option to uninstall at anytime without the loss of cache and
other system resources.
* An option to run the network driver in promiscuous mode
which
would allow the systems hardware probe feature to have greater use.

I myself, decided to avoid all of the headaches associated with Wife 1.0
by sticking with Girlfriend 2.0. Even here, however, I found 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 I should have been aware of.
Apparently the versions of Girlfriend have conflicts over shared used of
the I/O
port.
You 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 in the
system.
Another annoying problem - all versions of Girlfriend continually popup
annoying messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0.

********** B U G W A R N I N G **********
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
executing a self-uninstallation. Then Mistress 1.1 will refuse to
install, claiming insufficient system resources.

********** B U G W O R K - A R O U N D S **********
To avoid the above bug, 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 1.1 via a UseNet provider
under an anonymous name. Here again, beware of the viruses which can
accidentally be downloaded from the Use Net.


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Duke Lou
MoC of 9

[Metody I The Evil]

I've experienced some other issues with GirlFriend 2.0. The main issue is the cache problem. Luckily, there's the Promise v.1.00 by Liar Software, which basically emulates cache by distorting it in time. This, however, is not a free software and has limited 5-10 days maximum working span, after which the effect dissapears.

The second issue came from the fact that some unknown reason /an undocumented function? / caused the program to try to update to Wife v.1.00 by itself WITHOUT showing any pop-ups. Luckily, the attempt was blocked due to agent codename Strahil written Firewall.

Both issues were overcomed only by uninstalling the GirlFriend v.2.00 software and immediately installing the SRH /StealthRunHide/ v.5.7 free program. Although it takes it a big ammount of time to be able to completely remove most traces of GF v.2.00, it has the benefit of both reducing the overall ammount of cache used, as well as blocking any attemps by IWKE /I Wanna Know Everything/ third party software.

Anyway, the new and improved Fishing v.2.5 for Wife 1.0 has worked flawlessly with some of my friends who had installed it.

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"Unity creates power"
Khan Kubrat to his 5 sons