Upgrading to Wife 1.0

[chaz255]

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
* 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.

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

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!!!!!!!!!

[handeeman]

LMAO! "Conflicts over shared use of the I/O port", "insufficient resources" LMAO!

[Knigh7s]

LMAO! that was a good read!, Ima havta bookmark this one!!

[Cobrajet]

I had Wife 1.0 running happily for over 10 years, and a couple child processes concurrently. However, changes in the operating system caused Wife 1.0 to become sluggish, and consume huge amounts of all resources (my memory is shot now), so I uninstalled Wife 1.0 about 12 years ago. One of the child processes, and a newly developing grand-child process, followed the Wife 1.0 bus.

After 10 years, I think I finally got child process 2.0 running on it's own processor, but child process 1.0, and a second grand-child process (still in development mode), have been popping up on the screen lately, and threatening to assimilate into my otherwise stable environment.

I bought this machine for single-player gaming and social networking, not SIMS and beta testing. McAfee seems to have no power to prevent these viruses and spybots from invading my personal space. D'OH!!!

Bring back DOS - Dating Other Singles!!

[VX KAT]

TOO FUNNY!!!!

[tom4bren]

Gregg,

It only took me about 10 years to get Wife1.0 completely uninstalled.

Wife2.0 was very easy to install. It did take over my entire system but does such a good job that I'm happy with it.

I still have issues with Child1.0 and Child1.3 although Child1.2 does very well. StepChild Apps 1 thru 3 integrated very well.

I may just have to put Wife2.0 into firmware as a permanent solution.

Tom

[handeeman]

You people crack me up! Me being the computer "nurd" I am. I'm even learning some of the lingo. For me, Wife 1.0 was installed almost 36yrs. ago when they still used punch cards to program, no Child program would take. It was not from lack of attempted installation, but programing wouldn't stick. However, I will say that lack of Child 1.0,2.0 or 3.0 did allow for certain operational upgrades, such as larger storage space for wife 1.0, bassboat (1.0,2.0 &3.0), MiamiViceCar 1.0, and VX 1.0. So even though I'm operating an antiquated system a little Metamucil 3.0 keeps it running smooth.

[tom4bren]

I hear that Wife1.0 is particularly susceptable to the "put that thing away & go to sleep" virus.

[handeeman]

Wife 1.0 once threatened to have me arristed for assault with a dead weapon.

[tom4bren]

LMAO. You win.