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 initialisation 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. -Minimise button. -Ability to delete the
"headache" file
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 uninstall Wife 1.0, the program will delete MSMoney files before
doing the uninstall itself. Once that happens, you will get an "insufficient
resources" error message.
