GIRLFRIEND

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 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,  I've  never  liked  how  the GirlFriend Series 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 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, 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 often prohibits access to FreeSexPlus,  even with new Plug-Ins. On top of that, Wife 1.0 came  with  MotherInLaw 1.0, although he did not
ask for it. This has an automatic pop-up feature he can't control, and it's impossible to modulate its  sound.  I  suggested that he consider installing Mistress 1.0, but he said  he  heard  if  you try to run it without first uninstalling any of  the  Wife  series, Wife will delete all MSMoney files and  crash  the  system  before uninstalling itself. With a purged cache, Mistress  1.0  will  never  install. The moral of this story is:  Know  your  system's  hardware  requirements, software peculiarities and limited range of  compatibilities  and do be careful with those alluring upgrades.