From: alanb@sonic.net   
      
   Upgrading to Wife 1.0  Tech Support   
      
      
      
   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!!!!!!!!!   
      
      
      
      
   Cheers,   
      
      
   Richa   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   Forgive & Forget.......   
      
      
   .........But keep a list of names :)   
      
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