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Subject: Tech Support, I have a problem...
>
> Dear Tech Support:
>
> I am currently running the latest version of GirlFriend and I
> have been
> having some problems lately. I have been running the same version
> of
> DrinkingBuddies 1.0 forever as my primary application, and all
> the
> GirlFriend releases I have tried have always conflicted with it.
> I hear
> that DrinkingBuddies will not crash if GirlFriend is run in
> background
> mode and the sound is turned off. However, I am embarrassed to
> say I
> cannot find the switch to turn the sound off. I have resorted to
> running them separately, and it seems to work okay. GirlFriend
> also
> seems to have a problem coexisting with my Golf 3.0 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 did not 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, GirlFriend
> 2.0
> uninstalled itself. Shortly after that, I installed GirlFriend
> 3.0
> Beta Version. 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 a while. I very cautiously upgraded to
> GirlFriend 4.0. This time I used a SCSI probe first and 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 cannot 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. In addition, I have 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 a
> Terminate and
> Stay Resident version of GirlFriend. He discovered that
> GirlFriend 1.0
> Plus expires within a year if you do not 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
> cannot load anything else. One of the primary reasons he decided
> to
> upgrade to Wife 1.0 was because it came bundled with FreeSex
> Plus.
> Well, it turns out the resource allocation module of Wife 1.0
> sometimes prohibits access to FreeSex Plus, 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 MotherlnLaw, which has an
> automatic
> pop-up feature he cannot turn off. I told him to try installing
> Mistress 1.0, but he said he heard if you try to run Mistress 1.0
>
> before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete all of your
> MSMoney
> files before doing the uninstall itself. Then Mistress 1 will
> not
> install anyway because of insufficient resources. Looking for
> your
> advice on how to sort this all out.
>
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Robert C
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