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Software Problems with Girlfriend 1.0

Can anyone help with this software problem?

Several months ago I upgraded to Girlfriend 1.0 from Drinking Mates 4.2, which I'd used for years without any trouble. However, there are apparently conflicts between these two products and the only solution for system stability was to try to run Girlfriend 1.0 with the sound turned off.

To make matters worse, Girlfriend 1.0 is also incompatible with several other of my favourite applications, such as Lads' Night Out 3.1, Football 2 and JazzMag 6.1. Successive versions of Girlfriend have proved no better. I tried a temporary uninstall of all Girlfriend utilities to test the capability (on the advice of a friend) of a popular shareware beta-program, Party Girl 2.1 - which though highly functional, had many bugs and left a virus in my system, forcing me to shut down completely for several weeks, after seeking costly (and embarrassing) professional help.

Eventually I tried to run Girlfriend 1.2 and Girlfriend 1.0 at the same time, only to discover terrifying system conflict when these two systems detected each other, resulting in severe damage being caused to all my hardware. Sensing a way out, I got an expensive diamondware patch to upgrade one of the conflicting applications to Fiancee 1.0, only to discover that this product has to be soon further upgraded to Wife 1.0. I did this largely because, whilst Wife 1.0 uses up all available system resources, it does come bundled with the awesome applications FreeSex Plus and Cleanhouse 2002.

However, I discovered that Wife 1.0 can be very unstable and costly to run. For example, any mistakes I made were automatically stored in a hidden file in Wife 1.0's memory and could not be deleted - they then re-surface months later without any warning. Wife 1.0 also has an automatic Diary Explorer, BeerNumber Calculator and E-mail porn filter, and can, without warning, launch WhingeZip. Painterstrop Pro can also be a problem, but only about every four weeks.

These latter products have no help files and require you to try and guess the problem yourself. Additional costly problems are that the Wife 1.0 bundle, that came with the original system, needs updating and synching regularly, requiring Shoe Shop Browser Pro for new attachments and Hairstyle Express needs to be reinstalled every other week. It also conflicted with some of the new games I wanted to try, stating that they are an illegal operation. When Wife 1.0 attaches itself to my Nova program, it often crashes or runs the system dry. Wife 1.0 also has a rather annoying voice-prompt pop-up called Mother-in-Law, which can't be turned off.

Recently I've been tempted to try Mistress 2002, but there could be problems, if Wife 1.0 detects the presence of Mistress 2002 it will delete all MS Money files before automatically un-installing itself.

Any ideas?

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