Sputnick desperately seeking technical support:
"I'm currently running the latest version of Girlfriend 5.0 and
having some problems. I've been running the same version of
DrinkingBuddies 1.0 for years as my primary application, and all
the Girlfriend releases have always conflicted with it. I hear that
DrinkingBuddies won't crash if you minimize Girlfriend with the
sound off, but since I can't find the switch
to turn it off, I just run them separately and it works OK.
Girlfriend also seems to have a problem coexisting with
Golfware, often trying to abort my Golf program with some sort of
timing incompatibility. I probably should have stayed with
Girlfriend 1.0, but I thought I might see better performance with
Girlfriend 2.0. After months of conflicts, 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 upgrade to run properly. He was
right. As soon as I purged my cache, Girlfriend 2.0 uninstalled itself.
Shortly after that, I installed a Girlfriend 3.0 beta. All the bugs were
supposed to be gone, but the first time I used it, it gave me a virus.
After a hard drive clean up and thorough virus scan I very
cautiously upgraded to Girlfriend 4.0. This time using a SCSI probe and
virus protection. It worked OK for a while until I discovered Girlfriend
1.0 wasn't completely uninstalled! I tried to run Girlfriend 1.0 again with
Girlfriend 4.0 still installed, but Girlfriend 4.0 has an unadvertised
feature that automatically senses the presence of Girlfriend
1.0 and communicates with it in some way, resulting in the immediate
removal of both versions!
The version I have now works pretty well, but, like all
versions, there are still some problems. The Girlfriend package is written
in some obscure language that I can't understand, much less reprogram. And
I've never liked how Girlfriend is totally 'object-oriented.'
A year ago, a friend upgraded his version to GirlfriendPlus
1.0, which is a Terminate-and-Stay resident version. He discovered
GirlfriendPlus 1.0 expires within a year if you don't upgrade to Fiancee
1.0. So he did. But soon after that, you have 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 that he upgraded to Wife is because
it came bundled with FreeSex 1.0. Well, it turns out that the resource
allocation module of Wife 1.0 sometimes prohibits access to FreeSex
(particularly the new Plug and Play items 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. And,
although he did not ask for it, Wife 1.0 came with MotherInLaw 1.0,
which has an automatic popup feature he can't turn off. I told him to
install Mistress 1.0, but he said that he heard that if you try to run
it without first uninstalling Wife, that Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney
files before uninstalling itself. Then Mistress 1.0 won't install anyway,
due to insufficient resources. If anybody out there is able to offer
technical advice, please do so."
