SUBJECT: Important Info About Upgrading Software

 
 Yet another reason for never buying a 'X.0' release of anything.
 
 Last year a friend of mine upgraded GirlFriend 12.4 to Wife 1.0 and found   
 that it's a memory hog leaving very little system resources for other   
 applications. He also noticed that Wife 1.0 is spawning Child-Processes,   
 which further consume 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 as PokerNight 10.3, BeerBash   
 2.5, and PubNight 7.2 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.
 
 Some features he'd like to see in the upcoming Wife 1.1:
 
 A "Don't remind me again" button Minimize button
 An install shield feature that allows Wife 1.1 to be uninstalled at any   
 time without the loss of cache and other system resources
 An option to run the network driver in promiscuous mode which would allow   
 the system 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 2.7.  Even here, however, I found many problems:
 
 Apparently you cannot install GirlFriend 2.7 on top of GirlFriend 1.5.   
 You must uninstall GirlFriend 1.5 first.  Other users say this is a long   
 standing bug which I should have been aware of.
 
 Apparently different versions of GirlFriend have conflicts over shared   
 use of the I/O port.  Simultaneous use almost never works.  To make matters
 worse, the uninstall program for GirlFriend 1.5 doesn't work very well,   
 leaving undesirable traces of the application in the system.  All versions of
 GirlFriend continually popup little annoying messages about the   
 advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0.

Bug Warning

 
 If you try to install Mistress 1.1 before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0
 deletes all MS Money files and performs an auto-uninstall.  Reports have
 been filed regarding this feature, but at this time there is no known   
 solution.
 After Wife 1.0 performs an uninstall, Mistress 1.1 may now refuse to
 install, claiming insufficient system resources.

Bug Work-Arounds

 
 To avoid the above bug, try installing Mistress 1.1 at a different
 location and never run any file transfer application such as Laplink 6.0.
 
 Mistress 1.1 should be considered shareware.  Shareware applications have
 been known to carry viruses that may also infect you and the Wife 1.0.   
 Care should be taken when using shareware