BUG WARNING

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 only now noticing that Wife 1.0 also is spawning
Child-Processes which are further consuming valuable resources. No mention
of this particular phenomena was included in the product brochure or the
documentation, though other users 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 initialization
where it can monitor all other system activity. He's finding that some
applications such PokerNight 10.3, BeerBash 2.5 and PubNight 7.0 are no
longer able to run in the system at all, crashing the system when selected
(even though they 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.

The feature he'd like to see in the upcoming Wife 2.0 include:

- A "Don't remind me again" button;
- Minimize button;
- An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 to be installed with the
  option to uninstall at anytime without the 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 decided to avoid all of the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by
sticking with GirlFriend 2.0. Even here, however, I found many problems.
Apparently you cannot install GirlFriend 2.0 on top of GirlFriend 1.0. 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 shared use of the I/O port. You think 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.

Another thing that sucks - all versions of GirlFriend continually pop-up
little annoying messages about the advantage of upgrading to Wife 1.0.

UNDOCUMENTED BUG

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 Microsoft Money files before
doing the uninstall itself. Then Mistress 1.1 will refuse to install, 
claiming insufficient resources.

BUG WORK-AROUNDS

To avoid the above bug, try installing Mistress 1.1 on a different system
and never run any file transfer applications such as LapLink 6.0. Also,
beware of similar shareware that have been known to carry viruses that may
affect Wife 1.0.

Another solution would be to run Mistress 1.0 via a UseNet provider under an
anonymous name. Here again, beware of the viruses which can accidentally be
downloaded from the UseNet.