Upgrade problems
Problems when upgrading from Girlfriend
Uppgraderingsproblem av annorlunda sort. Upphovsman (-kvinna?) okänd.
Last year a friend of mine upgraded from Girlfriend 4.0 to Wife 1.0 and
found that itīs 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 further consuming valueble resources.
No mention of this particular phenomenon was included in the product
dokumentation, though other users have informed that this is to be
expected due to the nature of this application. Not only that, Wife 1.0
installs itself so that it is always launched at system initalization
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 in the system at all, causing the
system to lockup when launched (even though these apps worked fine
before).
Wife 1.0 provides no installations options. Thus, the installation of
undesired plug-ins such as Mother-in-law 55.8 and the Sister-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 "Donīt 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 loss of Cache and other
system resources.
- An option to run the network driver in "promiscuous mode" which
would allow the systems Hardware Probe feature to be much more useful.
I myself wish I had decided to avoid all headaches associated with Wife
1.0 by sticking with Girlfriend 3.0. Even there, 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. To make matter worse, the uninstall program
for Girlfriend 3.0 dosenīt work very well, leaving undesirable traces
of application in the system. Another identified problem is that all
the versions of Girlfriend continually popup annoying little messages
about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0.
******BUG WARNING******
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. Then for some
reason Mistress 1.1 wonīt install at all, claiming insufficient
resources. To avoid the aforementioned bug, try installing Mistress 1.1
on a different system and never run any file transfer (such as Laplink)
between the two systems.