Hi All,
I'm currently running the latest version of Girlfriend and having some problems.
I've been running the same version of Drinking Buddies 1.0 all along as my primary
application, and all the Girlfriend releases have always conflicted with it. I hear
the Drinking Buddies won't crash if you run Girlfriend in background mode with
the sound switched off. But I'm embarrassed to say that I can't find the switch
to turn it off. I just run them separately, and it works OK. Girlfriend also seems
to have a problem coexisting with my Golf program, often trying to abort my Golf
program with some sort of timing incompatibility. I probably should have stayed
with Girlfriend 1.0, but I thought I might see better performance with Girlfriend
2.0. After months of conflicts and other problems, I consulted a friend who has
had experience with Girlfriend 2.0. He said that I probably didn't have enough
cache to run Girlfriend 2.0 and that 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. I had to clean out my
whole system and shut down for a while. I very cautiously upgraded to Girlfriend
4.0. This time I used an SCSI probe first and also installed virus protection. It
worked OK for a while until I discovered Girlfriend 1.0 was still in my system! I
tried to run Girlfriend 1.0 again with Girlfriend 4.0 still installed, but Girlfriend 4.0
has a feature that I didn't know about that automatically senses the presence
of Girlfriend 1.0 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 that I can't understand, much less re-program. Frankly,
I think that there is too much attention paid to the look and feel and not enough
to 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 totally 'object-oriented'. A year ago, a friend of mine upgraded his version of
Girlfriend to Girlfriend Plus 1.0, which is Terminate and Stay Resident version of
Girlfriend. He discovered that Girlfriend Plus 1.0 expires within a year if you don't
upgrade to Fiancee 1.0. So he did. But soon after that, you have 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 that he upgraded to
Wife is that it came bundled with FreeSexPlus 1.0. Well, it turns out that the
resource allocation module of Wife 1.0 sometimes prohibits access to FreeSexPlus,
particularly the new Plug and Play items 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. And,
although he did not ask for it, Wife 1.0 came with MotherInLaw 1.0 which has an
automatic pop-up feature that he can't turn off. I told him to install Mistress 1.0,
but he said that he heard that if you try to run it without first uninstalling Wife,
that Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before doing the uninstall itself. Then
Mistress 1.0 won't install anyway due to insufficient resources.
Anybody out there able to offer technical advice.............? |
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