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 Subject:  Unusual yet familar Support Questions..

 Dear Technical Support:
 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 DrinkingBuddies 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 won't crash if
 GirlFriend is run in background mode and the
 sound is turned off.  But I'm embarrassed to
 say I can't find the switch to turn the sound
 off.  I just run them separately, and it
 works okay.

 Girlfriend also seems to have a problem
 coexisting with my Golf program, often trying
 to abort Golf with some sort of timing
 incompatibility.

 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
 had 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, it uninstalled itself.

 Shortly after that, I installed GirlFriend 3.0
 beta.  All the bugs were supposed to be gone,
 but the first time I used it, it gave me a virus
 anyway.

 I had to clean out my whole system and shut down
 for a while.  I very cautiously upgraded to
 GirlFriend 4.0.  This time I used a SCSI probe
 first and also installed a virus protection
 program.  It worked okay for a while until I
 discovered that GirlFriend 1.0 was still in my
 system.  I tried running GirlFriend 1.0 again
 with GirlFriend 4.0 still installed, but
 GirlFriend 4.0 has a feature I didn't know about
 that automatically senses the presence of any
 other version of GirlFriend and communicates with
 it in some way, which results in the immediate
 removal of both versions.

 The version I have now works pretty well, but
 there are still some problems. Like all versions
 of GirlFriend, it is written in some obscure
 language I can't understand, much less reprogram.
 Frankly I think there is too much attention paid
 to the look and feel rather than the desired
 functionality. Also, to get the best connections
 with your hardware, you usually have to use
 gold-plated contacts.

 And I've never liked how GirlFriend is totally
 "object-oriented."  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 Fiancee 1.0. So he did, but
 soon after that, he had to upgrade to Wife 1.0,
 which he describes as a huge resource hog.

 It has taken up all his space, so he can't load
 anything else. One of the primary reasons he
 decided to go with Wife 1.0 was because it came
 bundled with FreeSexPlus.  Well, it turns out the
 resource allocation module of Wife 1.0 sometimes
 prohibits access to FreeSexPlus, particularly the
 new Plug-Ins he wanted to try.  On top of that,
 Wife 1.0 must be running on a well warmed-up
 system before he can do anything.

 Although he did not ask for it, Wife 1.0 came
 with 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
 if you try to run it without first uninstalling
 Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files
 before doing the ininstall itself.
 Then Mistress 1.0 won't install anyway because of
 insufficient resources.

 Any Ideas???