Thread: This is funny

I laugh and laugh because it is sooooooooo true. I did upgrade from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0, but that malfunctioned and caused the Warning of Alimony/ Child Support. I now have Girlfriend 8.0 who technically should be Wife 2.0, but until I can iron the bugs out of this one, Girlfriend 8.0 is where she remains . I also now hope that Girlfriend 8.0 doesn't read this otherwise the system will short and the resultant program Nag Nag 9.5 will come to the fore

Regards

Stevo

Originally Posted by stevo68

I laugh and laugh because it is sooooooooo true. I did upgrade from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0, but that malfunctioned and caused the Warning of Alimony/ Child Support. I now have Girlfriend 8.0 who technically should be Wife 2.0, but until I can iron the bugs out of this one, Girlfriend 8.0 is where she remains . I also now hope that Girlfriend 8.0 doesn't read this otherwise the system will short and the resultant program Nag Nag 9.5 will come to the fore

Regards

Stevo

Just spat my coffee onto my screen

Dear Tech Support,

After upgrading from Girlfriend 2.0 (never having upgraded to newer versions of Girlfriend) to Wife 1.0, I was pleased with the improved Entertainment features but found the Support Utilities to be lacking. Specifically, Wife 1.0 did NOT ship with Clean and Sweep (in any version) nor with Cook It 1.5, as advertised. I believe there may have been a Beta version of Cook It running, but it lacked all but the most basic features. I purchased Clean and Sweep 4.0 Professional however there were other problems with Wife 1.0.

The version of Do Bills (4.2) that shipped with Wife 1.0 was, to say the least, buggy. Once installed, it refused all manual over-rides, strictly allocated system resources but did not actually pay bills. Any attempt to manually pay bills resulted in system crashes and activation of Nag Nag (which seemed to be the more advanced 12.1 version, not the 9.5 as promised).

I made extensive use of Yes Dear, C:\APOLOGIZE!, Flowers 2.1, Diamonds 5.0, Cards 3.6 and Dates 9.2, without any improvement in the function of Wife 1.0.

Any attempts to debug or suggest upgrades (Wife 1.1, for example) were summarily dismissed by the Operating System. At some point Nag Nag 12.1 became corrupted resulting in activation of the little-known system tool Complete Paranoia.

With Complete Paranoia running along with Nag Nag 12.1, I was forced to completely un-install Wife 1.0. With extensive IT support and a great deal of trouble (not to mention money) I was able to avoid the troublesome Alimony/ Child Support warning - and at the same time avoid having Wife 1.0 attempting to control the lives of my 2 children - by taking on all of Wife 1.0's functions manually.

I am currently operating with Girlfriend 4.0. The main difficulty with this program is its lack of compatibility with my current hardware installation - specifically it's in another State entirely. Still, if installed as Wife 2.0, it does seem to have all its Utilities function and to date seems to only have Nag Nag 3.1 installed (the 16-bit version only).

Any suggestions on upgrade paths would be welcomed.

Troubled User

SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENTS FOR INCLUSION IN THE UPGRADE RELEASE OF WIFE 2.0


*The addition of Minimise and don’t remind me again buttons
*An install-shield feature that allows wife 2.0 to be run in the background with all normal user functions enabled without the loss of cache or other system resources.
*A stripped down TSR version, (Wife-Lite V1.01?) that can be installed and operated with strict system manager control user-selected access and utilisation privileges.

I myself decided to avoid all the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by sticking with Girlfriend 2.0 but even here I have found many problems.
Apparently you cannot install Girlfriend 2.0 on top of Girlfriend 1.0. You must un-install Girlfriend 1.0 first. Other users say this is a long standing bug of which I should have been aware as both versions of Girlfriend apparently have conflicts over the shared use of the I/O port. You’d think they would have fixed such a stupid bug by now. To make matters worse. The un-install program for girlfriend 1.0 doesn’t work very well, leaving undesirable traces of the application in the system. These appear at random causing Girlfriend 2.0 to crash without warning, taking the whole system down. Ongoing I/O port access problems may also occur during even minor system conflicts caused by residual application traces. Another problem is that all versions of Girlfriend continually pop-up unsolicited messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0. This blatant marketing ploy quickly annoys.

Reformat before it's to late

or run the this simple program

1: C\ me
2: C\me run
3: run me run

Originally Posted by dobbo

Reformat before it's to late

or run the this simple program

1: C\ me
2: C\me run
3: run me run

How true is that

Originally Posted by Bushie

SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENTS FOR INCLUSION IN THE UPGRADE RELEASE OF WIFE 2.0


*The addition of Minimise and don’t remind me again buttons
*An install-shield feature that allows wife 2.0 to be run in the background with all normal user functions enabled without the loss of cache or other system resources.
*A stripped down TSR version, (Wife-Lite V1.01?) that can be installed and operated with strict system manager control user-selected access and utilisation privileges.

I myself decided to avoid all the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by sticking with Girlfriend 2.0 but even here I have found many problems.
Apparently you cannot install Girlfriend 2.0 on top of Girlfriend 1.0. You must un-install Girlfriend 1.0 first. Other users say this is a long standing bug of which I should have been aware as both versions of Girlfriend apparently have conflicts over the shared use of the I/O port. You’d think they would have fixed such a stupid bug by now. To make matters worse. The un-install program for girlfriend 1.0 doesn’t work very well, leaving undesirable traces of the application in the system. These appear at random causing Girlfriend 2.0 to crash without warning, taking the whole system down. Ongoing I/O port access problems may also occur during even minor system conflicts caused by residual application traces. Another problem is that all versions of Girlfriend continually pop-up unsolicited messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0. This blatant marketing ploy quickly annoys.

Bushie, the uninstall/ conflict issue appears to be worse after uninstalling Wife 1.0. After some research I can confidently say that a completely new housing is required as, apparently, traces of Wife 1.0 can be detected in the physical environment. In addition, there are multiple conflicts associated with not only residual program traces but the POSSIBILITY of residual program traces. However to date none have caused the initiation of Nag Nag and in this case it would appear that clear evidence of an intention to upgrade to Wife 2.0 (rather than re-installing Wife 1.0) does reduce the number of error messages.

As you would be aware by now, Girlfriend is really a trialware version of Wife and the functionality differences between the two, and the marketing messages you mention, appear to differ between distributions. The Girlfriend 4.0 I've been playing with does not come with I/O port access enabled until upgraded (or perhaps I just haven't found the access codes yet) so I can't really compare the impact of conflict on I/O function. I do think attempting to use 2 I/O ports was always going to create conflicts.

I guess in the long run you either chose to put up with the adware or buy a license.

Good luck.

Steve

There is another alternative for the less mainstream operating systems
Poof 1.0
Priest 1.0
Batch 1.0

I have no experience with the first two but have heard the first option can sometimes be a complete pain in the ****
Option two is very time consuming with only a certain minority experiencing great delight in long term use, however a great tax offset is included with this program as well as a long term aftersales support scheme
My personal preference of the above three would be Batch 1.0, it has a simpler layout and a faster running speed due to the lack of useless applications that the average user would very rarely want to use. It has had slight Nag nag problems but has the ability of ending whatever application starts Nag Nag and simply open a new one with no memory problems. A fast typing speed may be required to achieve the most worthwhile experience from this o/s.