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Subject: - Bug Report – New Computer Software

Wife 1.0 Upgrade

Last year a friend of mine upgraded GirlFriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that it’s a memory hog leaving very little system resources for other applications.

He is now only noticing that Wife 1.0 also is spawning child–processes which are further consuming valuable resources.

No mention of this particular phenomenon was included in the product brochure or the documentation, though other uses have informed him that this is to be expected due to the nature of the application.

Not only that, Wife 1.0 installs itself such that it is always launched at system initialisation where it can monitor all other system activity. He’s finding that some applications such as PokerNight10.3, BeerBash 2.5 and PubNight 7.0 are no longer able to run at all and crash the system when selected even though they had always 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 Beta release.

Also, system performance seems to diminish with each passing day.

Some features he’d like to see in the upcoming Wife 2.0:-

* A “Don’t remind me again” button
* Minimise button
* An install shield that allows Wife 2.0 be installed with an option to uninstall at anytime without loss of cache and other system resources.
* An option to run the network driver in promiscuous mode which would allow the system hardware probe tool to be much more useful.

I personally decided to avoid all the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by sticking with GirlFriend 2.0. Even so I found some problems.

Apparently you cannot install GirlFriend 2.0 on top of GirlFriend1.0. You must uninstall GirlFriend 1.0 first.

Other users say this is a long standing bug which I should have been aware of. Apparently the versions of GirlFriend have conflicts over the shared use of the I/O port. You think they would they would have fixed such a stupid bug by now.

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.

There is another problem. All versions of Girlfriend continually popup little annoying messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0

But here is a major 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 ALL MSMoney files before doing an uninstall itself then Mistress 1.1 will refuse to install claiming insufficient resources.

Be afraid, be very afraid...