Installation and Support of new software:
I'm currently running the latest version of Girlfriend, and I've been having some problems lately. I've been running the same version of Drinking Buddies 1.0 forever as my primary application, and all the Girlfriend releases I've tried have always conflicted with it. I hear that Drinking Buddies runs fine as long as Girlfriend is run in background mode and the sound is turned off. Unfortunately, I can't find the switch to turn the sound off. Therefore, I have to run both of them separately. Girlfriend also seems to have a problem co-existing with my Golf program, often trying to abort Golf with some sort of timing incompatibility. On a positive note, Drinking Buddies and Golf seem to have no incompatibilities whatsoever.
I probably should have stayed with Girlfriend 1.0, but I thought I
might see better performance from Girlfriend 2.0. After months of
conflicts and other problems, I consulted a friend who has experience
with Girlfriend 2.0. He said I probably didn't have enough cache to
run Girlfriend 2.0, and eventually it would require a Token Ring to
run properly. He was right. As soon as I purged my cache and
realized that no one in their right mind is installing new Token Rings.
Girlfriend 2.0 uninstalled itself. Shortly after that, I installed
Girlfriend 3.0 beta. Unfortunately, there was a bug in the program,
nd
the first time I used it, it gave me a virus. I had to clean out my
whole system and shut down for a while.
A year ago, a friend of mine upgraded his version of Girlfriend to
Girlfriendplus 1.0, which is a Terminate and Stay Resident version of
Girlfriend. He discovered that Girlfriendplus 1.0 expires within a
year if you don't upgrade to Fiance 1.0, so he did, and soon after
that, he had to upgrade to Wife 1.0, which he describes as a huge
resource hog.
Wife 1.0 has taken up all his space... he can't load anything else.
One of the primary reasons he decided to go with Wife 1.0 was because
it
supposedly came bundled with special software called FreeSexPlus.
well,
it turns out the resource requirements of Wife 1.0 usually
prohibits access to FreeSexPlus, (particularly the new Plug-Ins he
wanted to try).
On top of that, Wife 1.0 must be running in a well warmed-up system
before he can do anything. And although he did not ask for it, Wife
1.0 automatically downloaded a program called MotherInLaw which has an
automatic pop-up feature he can't turn off. I told him to try
installing Mistress 1.0, but he said he heard that if you try running
it
without first uninstalling Wife 1.0, then Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney
files before uninstalling itself. Then Mistress 1.0 won't install
because of insufficient resources.
Damn software! You can't work with it, and you can't live without it!!