Last year I upgraded my Girlfriend 5.0 to Girlfriend 5.1, which
installs itself as Fiancee 1.0. Recently, I upgraded Fiancee 1.0 to
Wife 1.0 and it's a real memory hog. It has taken up all my space and
Wife 1.0 must be running before I can do ANYTHING.
It is also spawning Child Processes which are further consuming
system
resources. Some applications, such as PokerNight 10.3, BeerBash 2.5
and PubNight 7.0 are no longer able to run in the system at all.
Additional plug-ins were automatically installed, such as
Mother-in-Law 55.8, and there is no uninstall feature for these
plug-ins. No mention of
this behaviour was discussed in the brochures or documentation,
although other users have reported similar problems.
Because of this, some users that I know have decided to avoid the
headaches associated with these upgrades, and simply move from
Girlfriend 5.0 to Girlfriend 6.0. Unfortunately, this is not without
peril as all traces of Girlfriend 5.0 must be removed from the system
before attempting installation of 6.0
Even then, Girlfriend 6.0 will repeatedly run system checks (usually
in
the background, and often late at night when the system is asleep) to
find evidence of previous versions. To cap it off, Girlfriend 6.0
apparently has a nag feature reminding about the advantages of
upgrading to Wife 1.0.
However, I do like some of the features that you are planning to
include
in the upcoming Girlfriend 6.1 release:

* A 'Don't remind me again' button,
* Minimise button,
* Shutdown feature,
* An install shield feature so that Girlfriend can be completely
uninstalled if necessary (so you don't lose cache and other objects).

Unfortunately, since I've already upgraded to Wife 1.0, I don't think
I will be able to take advantage of any of these new features, unless
you decide to include them in the next Mistress release. But, of
course, there is a whole raft of problems associated with the use of
Mistress 1.0 and Wife 1.0 on the same system - most notably are system
conflicts and continual disk thrashing, which starts shortly after
Wife 1.0 detects Mistress 1.0.
Interestingly enough, all versions of PersonalLawyer still work fine.

Finally, Wife 1.0 apparently deletes all MSMoney files before
uninstalling itself; following that, Mistress 1.1 will refuse to
install, claiming insufficient resources.
I personally find all these new tools and conflicts to be too
confusing
and time consuming. I'm sticking with Dog 1.0b3. It slobbers and chews
up the paper, but all in all these bugs are tolerable. It is simple to
operate and we get along fine.

LP
ZbY

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