18 months ago, I upgraded to Girlfriend 1.0 from DrinkingMates 4.2, which I had used for years without any trouble.However, there are apparently conflicts between these two products and the only solution was to try and run Girlfriend 1.0 with the sound turned off. To make matters worse, Girlfriend 1.0 is incompatible with several other applications, such as LadsNightOut 3.1, Football 4.5, and Playboy 6.9. Successive versions of GirlFriend proved no better. I tried a shareware program, Slapper 2.1, but it had many bugs and left a virus in my system, forcing me to shut down completely for several weeks. Eventually, I tried to run GirlFriend 1.2 and Girlfriend 1.0 at the same time, only to discover that when these two systems detected each other they caused severe damage to my hardware. I eventually upgraded to Fiancée 1.0, only to discover that this product soon had to be upgraded further to Wife 1.0. While Wife 1.0 tends to use up all my available resources, it does come bundled with FreeSexPlus and Cleanhouse2004. Shortly after this upgrade, however, I found that Wife 1.0 could be very unstable and costly to run. Any mistakes I made were automatically stored in Wife 1.0's memory and could not be deleted. They then resurfaced months later when I had forgotten about them. Wife 1.0 also has an automatic Diary, Explorer and E-mail filter, and can, without warning, launch TurboStrop and Whinge. These latter products have no Help files, and I have to try to guess what the problem is. Additional problems are that Wife 1.0 needs updating regularly, requiring ShoeShop Browser for new attachments and Hairstyle Express which needs to be reinstalled every other week. Also, when Wife 1.0 attaches itself to my Saab 93 Convertible hard drive, it often crashes. Wife 1.0 also comes with an irritating pop-up called MotherInLaw, which can't be turned off. Recently I've been tempted to install Mistress 2003, but there could be problems. A friend of mine has alerted me to the fact that if Wife 1.0 detects Mistress 2003, it tends to delete all of your Money before uninstalling itself. Is anyone else having these problems? __________________ dear tech support last year i upgraded from girlfriend 7.0 to wife 1.0. i soon noticed that the new program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of space and valuable resorces. in addition, wife 1.0 installed itself into all other programs and now monitors all other system activity. applications such as poker night 10.3, no longer run, crashing the system whenever selected. i can't seem to keep wife 1.0 in the background while attempting to run my favoriteapplications. i'm thinking of going back to girlfriend 7.0, but the uninstall doesen't work on wife 1.0. please help!!! thanks a troubled user. ---------- REPLY dear troubled user: this is a very common problem that men complain about. many people upgrade from girlfriend 7.0 to wife 1.0 thinking that it is just a utilities and entertainment program.wife 1.0 is an OPERATING SYSTEM and is designed by its creator to run EVERYTHING! ! ! it is also impossible to delete wife 1.0 and to return to girlfriend 7.0 becouse wife 1.0 is designed not to allow this. look in your wifes user manual under warning-alimony-child support. i recommend that you keep wife 1.0 and work on improving the situation. I suggest installing the background application "yes dear" to alleviate software augmentation. the best course of action is to enter the command C:\APOLOGISE because ultimately you will have to give the APOLOGISE commandbefor the system will return to normal anyway. wife 1.0 is a very good program, but tends to be very high maintenance. wife 1.0 comes with several support programs, such as clean and sweep 3.0, cook it 1.5 and do bill's 4.2. however be very careful how to use these programs. improper use will cause the system to launch the program NAG NAG 9.5 once this happens,the only way to improve performance of wife 1.0 is to purchase additional software. I recommend flowers 2.1 and diamonds 5.0 ! ! ! WARNING! ! ! DO NOT, under any circumstances, install secretary with short skirt 3.3 this application is not supported by wife 1.0 and will cause irreversible damage to the operating system. best of luck, tech support.
