New software errata (Wife 1.0)

Last year a friend of mine upgraded from Girlfriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that it's a memory hog leaving few system resources for other applications. He is also now noticing that Wife 1.0 is also spawning Child-processes which are furthur 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, BeerBash 2.5, and PubNite 7.0; are no longer able to run in the system at all, crashing the system when launched (even though these 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 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; A minimize button; An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 to be installed with the option of uninstalling at any time without the loss of Cache and other system resources. An option to run the network driver in "Promiscuous" mode, which would allow the item's 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 have found many problems. Apparently, you can not install Girlfriend 2.0 on top of Girlfriend 1.0. You must uninstall Girlfriend 1.0 first. Otherwise, the two versions of Girlfriend will have conflicts over the shared use of the I/O port. Other users have told me that this is a long-standing bug that I should have been aware of. 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 is that all versions of Girlfriend continually popup annoying little messages about the advantage 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, for some unknown reason, Mistress 1.1 won't install, claiming "insufficient resources".

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