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[Sydney Contributor - Bronze Find all posts View Profile Close Sydney]

Dear Tech Support:

This year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0to Wife 1.0. I soon noticed that the new program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of space and valuable resources.

In addition, Wife 1.0installed itself into all other programs and nowmonitors all other system activity. Applications such as Poker Night 10.3 , Football 5.0 , Hunting and Fishing 7.5 , and Golfing 3.6.

I can't seem to keep Wife 1.0 in the background while attempting to run my favourite applications. I'm thinking about going back toGirlfriend 7.0 , but the uninstall doesn't work on Wife 1.0 . Please help!

Thanks,
Troubled User.....

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

I have seen this before and I can tell you we are going to have a ball with Girlfriend7.0.
I know Steve has a few Mistresses.00 on the side.

[Sydney Contributor - Bronze Find all posts View Profile Close Sydney]

I have seen this before and I can tell you we are going to have a ball with Girlfriend7.0.
I know Steve has a few Mistresses.00 on the side.

Really? Which Steve? We have at least three Steve off the top of my head.

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

Yeah, which Steve?

I know there's a version of Sydney's joke where tech support writes back about Mistress 1.1, but I couldn't find it. Here's one that mentions that program, though.

Bug Report - Wife 1.0

Last year, I upgraded my GirlFriend 5.0 to GirlFriend 5.1, which installs itself as "Fiancee 1.0". Recently, I upgraded Fiancee 1.0 to Wife 1.0 and it's a real memory hog. It has taken up all my space, and Wife 1.0 must be running before I can do ANYTHING. It is also spawning Child Processes which are further consuming system resources. Some applications, such as PokerNight 10.3, BeerBash 2.5, and PubNight 7.0 are no longer able to run in the system at all.

Additional plug-ins were automatically installed, such as Mother-In-Law 55.8, and there is no uninstall feature for these plug-ins. No mention of this behavior was discussed in the brochures or documentation, although other users have reported similar problems. Because of this, some users that I know have decided to avoid the headaches associated with these upgrades, and simply move from Girlfriend 5.0 to Girlfriend 6.0.

Unfortunately, this is not without peril as well, as all traces of Girlfriend 5.0 must be removed from the system before attempting installation of 6.0. Even then, Girlfriend 6.0 will repeatedly run system checks (usually in the background, and often late at night when the system is asleep) to find evidence of previous versions. To cap it off, Girlfriend 6.0 apparently has a nag feature reminding about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0. However, I do like some of the features that you are planning to include in the upcoming Girlfriend 6.1 release:

# A "Don't remind me again" button
# Minimize button
# Shutdown feature
# An install shield feature so that Girlfriend can be completely uninstalled if necessary (so you don't lose cache and other objects)

Unfortunately, since I've already upgraded to Wife 1.0, I don't think I will be able to take advantage of any of these new features, unless you decide to include them in the next Mistress release. But, of course, there is a whole raft of problems associated with the use of Mistress 1.0 and Wife 1.0 on the same system-most notably are system conflicts and continual disk thrashing, which starts shortly after Wife 1.0 detects Mistress 1.0. Interestingly enough, all versions of Personal Lawyer still work fine.

Finally, Wife 1.0 apparently deletes all MSMoney files before uninstalling itself; following that, Mistress 1.1 will refuse to install, claiming insufficient resources. I personally find all these new tools and conflicts to be too confusing and time consuming. I'm sticking with Dog 1.0b3. It slobbers and chews up the paper, but all in all these bugs are tolerable. It is simple to operate and we get along fine.

[mshatty Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close mshatty]

T. R. Oglodyte's thread on Wife 1.0

Here's Steve's thread. I'm still laughing as I re-read it. It's great:

http://www.timeshareforums.com/forum...ad.php?t=17077

[riverdees05 Platinum Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close riverdees05]

What would it cost to upgrade a wife 1.0 to a girlfriend 2.0?

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

I love this bit (from Steve's post):

January 12
Yesterday, I installed GoldenRetriever 1.0 and PickupTruck 98. I'm looking at the entire PowerTools suite. DrinkingBuddies 1.0 seems to be finally working again, but it can't run over a network with other copies of Wife 1.0, or any version of GirlFriend, on the network.

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

Here's Steve's thread. I'm still laughing as I re-read it. It's great:

http://www.timeshareforums.com/forum...ad.php?t=17077

Thats the one!

[Sydney Contributor - Bronze Find all posts View Profile Close Sydney]

Ahh, I thought I'd read a much funnier version before. It must have been Steve's.
It's hard to get new jokes nowadays. Most have been posted before and gone around and around via emails.