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F R E N D Z of martian
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I hope someone can gimmie a hand with this SOFTWARE problem I am having.
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 runs fine as long as GirlFriend is run in
background mode and the sound is turned off. Unfortunately, I can't find
the switch to turn the sound off. Therefore, I have to run them separately.
GirlFriend also seems to have a problem coexisting with my Golf program,
often trying to abort Golf with some sort of timing incompatibility. On a
positive note, DrinkingBuddies and Golf seem to have no incompatibilities
whatsoever. 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 for GirlFriend 2.0, and eventually it would require a Token Ring. He
was right - as soon as I purged my cache, and realized that no one in their
right mind is installing new Token Rings, Girlfriend 2.0 uninstalled itself.
Shortly after that, I installed GirlFriend 3.0 beta. Unfortunately, there
was a bug in the program and the first time I used it, it gave me a virus. I
had to clean out my whole system and shutdown for awhile.
Very cautiously, I 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 realized I had not completely removed GirlFriend 1.0 from 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. This 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
"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 don't
upgrade to Fiancee 1.0. So he did, but soon after that, he had to upgrade to
Wife 1.0, which he describes as a huge resource hog. It has taken up all his
space. One of the primary reasons he decided to go with Wife 1.0 was because
it supposedly came bundled with a feature called FreeSexPlus. Well, it
turns out the resource requirements 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 I have heard some
people have tried solving of these problems by installing Mistress 1.0, but
he said he heard you must first uninstall Wife 1.0, or Wife 1.0 will delete
MSMoney files before uninstalling itself. Then Mistress 1.0 won't install
because of insufficient resources.
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