Relationships 2k5

Even non-Geeks could relate to this one.

Recently, a friend of mine upgraded from Girlfriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that it is a memory hog and leaves very little system resources for other applications. He is only now noticing that Wife 1.0 is also spawning Child-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, but Wife 1.0 installs itself in such a way that it is always launched at system initialisation where it can monitor all the other system activity.

He is finding that some other applications like PokerNight 10.3,BeerBash 2.5 and PubNight 7.0 are no longer able to run on the system at all; crashing the system when selected, even though they 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 Betarelease.

Additionally, system performance seems to diminish with each day passing. Some features he would like to see in the upcoming WIFE 2.0:

1) A "Do Not Remind Me Again" button.
2) A "Minimize" button.
3) An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 to be installed with the option to uninstall at any time without the loss of Cache and other system resources.
4) An option to run the network driver in promiscuous mode which would allow the system's hardware probe feature to be much more useful.

I have however decided to avoid all of these headaches associated with Wife 1.0 and have decided to stick with Girlfriend 2.0 Even here, however, I have found many problems:

Apparantly you cannot install Girlfriend 2.0 on top of Girlfriend 1.0. You must first uninstall Girlfriend 1.0. Other users say this is a long standing bug which I should have been aware of. You would think they have fixed such a bug by now.

To make matters worse; the uninstall program for Girlfriend 1.0 does not work very well and tends to leave undesirable traces of the application in the system. Another thing that sucks;
all versions of Girlfriend continually pop-up annoying little messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife1.0. No feature is provided where one could disable these message pop-ups.

Bug warning

Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug: If you try to install Mistress 1.1before uninstalling Wife 1.0, then Wife 1.0 will delete all MSMoney files before automatically uninstalling.

Mistress 1.1 will refuse to install, claiming insufficient system resources.

Bug workaround

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.