GIRLFRIEND

Sent by a friend: 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 DrinkingBuddies1.0 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 its sound is turned off. However, for the life of me I can'tfind
the switch that turns the sound off. So, I just run them separately, and they
work just fine.
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.