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Just thought you might enjoy reading this.
Last year, a friend of mine upgraded GirlFriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0 and noticed that it soon began spawning child-processes that are consuming valuable resources. No mention of this peculiar phenomenon was included in the product brochure. In addition, Wife 1.0 installs itself in such a way that it is always launched at system initialisation where it can monitor all other system activity. My friend is finding that some applications such as PokerNight 10.3 and BeerBash 2.5 are no longer able to run, crashing the system wheneber selected (even though they always worked fine before).
As a result of his problems, I decided to avoid all the problems associated with Wife 1.0 by sticking with GirlFriend 1.0. Even here, however, I found many headaches. For example, the uninstall program for GirlFriend 1.0 doesn't work very well, leaving undesirable traces of the application in the system. Even worse, all versions of GirlFriend constantly pop up little annoying messages - about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0.
Jonathan Powell, Virtual Hilarity, Reader's Digest February 2001
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Last year, a friend of mine upgraded GirlFriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0 and noticed that it soon began spawning child-processes that are consuming valuable resources. No mention of this peculiar phenomenon was included in the product brochure. In addition, Wife 1.0 installs itself in such a way that it is always launched at system initialisation where it can monitor all other system activity. My friend is finding that some applications such as PokerNight 10.3 and BeerBash 2.5 are no longer able to run, crashing the system wheneber selected (even though they always worked fine before).
As a result of his problems, I decided to avoid all the problems associated with Wife 1.0 by sticking with GirlFriend 1.0. Even here, however, I found many headaches. For example, the uninstall program for GirlFriend 1.0 doesn't work very well, leaving undesirable traces of the application in the system. Even worse, all versions of GirlFriend constantly pop up little annoying messages - about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0.
Jonathan Powell, Virtual Hilarity, Reader's Digest February 2001
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