¢ This article comes form the GARDEN¢ CITY ATARI COMPUTER ENTHUSIASTS in¢ Canada. It was written by JOHN¢ PICKEN.¢¢ WIFE 1.3 UPGRADE¢¢ Last year, after hearing how great it¢ was for so long, a friend of mine¢ upgraded from Girlfriend 3.0 to Wife¢ 1.0. He has found Wife 1.0 to be a¢ rescource hog, leaving him very¢ little free space for other¢ applications. Wife 1.0 is also¢ spawning Child-Subroutines, which¢ further consumes valuable system¢ resources. His system seems to¢ diminish with each passing day.¢¢ At first, he thought Wife 1.0 might¢ be infected with a virus, but other¢ users have assured him the Wife 1.0¢ is behaving normally and this¢ behavior should be expected due to¢ the nature of the application. My¢ friend also discovered that Wife 1.0¢ installed itself in such a way that¢ it can monitor all other system¢ activity. He now finds that some¢ programs such as PokerNight 10.3,¢ BeerBash 5.1 and PubNight 7.0 cannot¢ run at all. If attempts to lunch¢ them, Wife 1.0 complains about a¢ sharing violations and crashes. He¢ finds this behavior strange since he¢ could run these programs just fine¢ before the upgrade.¢¢ At installation, he found Wife 1.0¢ provides no option to bypass the¢ installation of undesired add-ons¢ such as MotherInLaw 55.8 and¢ BrotherInLaw Beta Release.¢¢ Some features he wold like to see¢ introduced in the upcoming Wife 2.0¢ release.¢¢ 1. A "Don't Remind Me Again" button¢ 2. A Minimize button¢ 3. An Install Shield that allows Wife¢ 2.0 to be uninstalled at anytime¢ without loss of cache or other¢ resources.¢ 3. An option to network driver in¢ share mode.¢¢ I have decided to forgo all the¢ headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by¢ sticking with Girlfriend 3.0.¢ Hoverver, even that option has many¢ problems. Aparently you cannot¢ install one version of Girlfriend¢ before you unistall the old version¢ first. To make matters worse, the¢ unistall program doesn't work very¢ well, leaving undesirable traces of¢ the application in the system. If the¢ newer version finds a reference (text¢ / image file, address) to the old¢ version, Girlfriend will completely¢ freeze until you reboot and remove¢ the stray reference. I am told this¢ is a long standing bug which I should¢ have been aware of.¢¢ Also versions of Girlfriend have¢ conflicts over shared use of the I/O¢ port. You think they would fix such a¢ stupid bug by now. Another thing that¢ stinks - all versions of Girlfriend¢ continually popup little annoying¢ messages about the advantages of¢ upgrading to Wife 1.0¢¢ BUG WARNING. Wife 1.0 has an¢ undocumented bug. If you try to¢ install Mistress 1.0 before¢ uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will¢ delete all MSMoney files and seize¢ your cache before doing the uninstall¢ itself. The Mistress 1.0 will refuse¢ to install, claiming insufficent¢ resources.¢¢ BUG WORKAROUNDS. If you can afford¢ it, try installing Mistress 1.0 on an¢ entirely different system and never¢ run any file transfer apllications¢ such as LapLink 6.0. Another possible¢ solution would be to run Mistress 1.0¢ via an ISP under an anonymous name.¢¢ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>END<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<¢¢
