Wife Upgrade

[Tajuddin]

Wife 1.0 Upgrade
>
>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 other
>applications. He is only now noticing that Wife 1.0 also is 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 8.3, BeerBash 2.5, and
>PubNight 7.0 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 2.0:
>* A 'Don't remind me again' button
>* Minimize button
>* An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 to 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 be much more useful.
>
>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 use 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 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 ******
>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
>1.0 via a UseNet provider under an anonymous name. Here again, beware of
>the viruses which can accidentally be downloaded from the UseNet.