System Problems: A Warning
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I'm currently running the latest version of GirlFriend and Ive been having some problems lately. Ive been running the
same version of DrinkingBuddies (v1.0) for a long time as my primary application and all of the GirlFriend releases that
Ive tried have always conflicted with it. 

I hear that DrinkingBuddies wont crash if GirlFriend is run in background mode and the sound is turned off. But, Im
embarrassed to say, I cant find the switch to turn the sound off. I just run them separately and it works okay. GirlFriend
also seems to have a problem coexisting 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
that I probably didnt have sufficient 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 didnt know about that
automatically senses the presence of any other version of GirlFriend and communicates with it in some way, resulting in
the immediate uninstallation of both versions. 

The version I have now works pretty well but there are still some problems. In common with all versions of GirlFriend
it is written in some obscure language that I cant 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 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 unless you perform the
upgrade to Fiancee 1.0, so he did. Soon after that he was forced to upgrade to Wife 1.0 which he describes as a huge
resource hog. It has taken up all of his space, and as a result he cant load anything else. 

One of the primary reasons he decided to go with Wife 1.0 was because it came bundled with FreeSexPlus. It turns out
the resource allocation module 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 that he cant turn
off. 

I told him to try installing Mistress 1.0, but he said that he had heard that if you try to run it without first uninstalling
Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before doing the uninstall itself. Then Mistress 1.0 wont install anyway
due to insufficient resources. 

Ah well, back to DrinkingBuddies 1.0