Subject: Male friend seeking Technical Support
I'm currently running the latest version of GirlFriend and I've been having some problems lately. I've been
running the same version of DrinkingBuddies 1.0 forever as my primary application, and all the GirlFriend
releases I've tried have always conflicted with it. I hear that DrinkingBuddies won't crash if GirlFriend is run in
background mode
and the sound is turned off. But I'm embarrassed to say I can't find the switch to turn the sound off. I just run
them separately, and it works okay.
Girlfriend also seems to have a problem co-existing with my Golf program, often trying to abort Golf with
some sort of timing incompatibility. I probably should have stayed with GirlFriend 1.0, but I thought I might
see better performance from GirlFriend 2.0. After months of conflicts and other problems, I consulted a friend
who has had 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 to run properly. He was right - as soon as I purged my
cache, it uninstalled itself.
Shortly after that, I installed GirlFriend 3.0 beta. All the bugs were supposed to be gone, but the first time I
used it, it gave me a virus anyway. I had to clean out my whole system and shut down for a while.
I very Cautiously upgraded to GirlFriend 4.0. This time I used a SCSI probe first and also installed a virus
protection program. It worked okay for a while until I discovered that GirlFriend 1.0 was still in my system.
I tried running GirlFriend 1.0 again with GirlFriend 4.0 still installed, but GirlFriend 4.0 has a feature I didn't
know about that automatically senses the presence of any other version of GirlFriend and communicates
with it in some way, which results in the immediate removal of both versions.
The version I have now works pretty well, but there are still some problems. Like all versions of GirlFriend, it
is written in some obscure language I can't understand, much less reprogram. Frankly I think there is too
much attention paid to the look and feel rather than the desired functionality. Also, to get the best
connections with your hardware you usually have to use gold-plated contacts. And I've never liked how
GirlFriend is totally "object-oriented."
A year ago, a friend of mine upgraded his version of GirlFriend to GirlFriendPlus 1.0, which is a Terminate
and Stay Resident version of GirlFriend. He discovered that GirlFriendPlus 1.0 expires within a year if you
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 he decided to go with Wife 1.0 was because it came bundled with FreeSexPlus.
Well, it turns out the resource allocation module of Wife 1.0 sometimes prohibits access to FreeSexPlus,
particularly the new Plug-Ins 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.
Although he did not ask for it, Wife 1.0 came with MotherInLaw which has an automatic pop-up feature he
can't turn off. I told him to try installing Mistress 1.0, but he said he heard if you try to run it without first
uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before doing the uninstall itself. Then Mistress 1.0
won't install anyway because of insufficient resources.
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