Last year, my friend upgraded his Girlfriend 3.1 to GirlfriendPlus1.0 (marketing name: Fiance1.0).

Recently he upgraded Fiance1.0 to Wife1.0 and it's a memory hogger, has taken all his space.

Wife1.0 must be running before he can do anything and seems to conflict/interfere with other tasks running such as Hockey 2.1, Squash 3.01 and Boyscouts 1.2.

Although he didn't ask for them Wife1.0 came with auto-installed Plug-ins such as MotherInLaw and BrotherInLaw.

Some features I'd like to see in the upcoming Girlfriend 4.0...

- a "Don't Remind Me Again" button

- a Minimize button

- a Shutdown feature

- an Install Shield feature so that Girlfriend 4.0 can be completely and safely uninstalled, if so desired without your losing cache and other objects.

I tried running Girlfriend 2.0 with Girlfriend 1.0 still installed, but they tried using the same I/O port and conflicted. Then I tried to uninstall Girlfriend 1.0, but it didn't have an Uninstall program. I tried to uninstall it by hand, but it put files in my system directory.

Another thing that sucks - all versions of Girlfriend that I've used are totally "object orientated" and only support hardware with gold plated contacts.

***** BUG WARNING ********

Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug.

If you try to install Mistress 1.1 before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before doing the uninstall itself. Then Mistress 1.1 will refuse to install, claiming insufficient resources. Wife 1.1 will then spawn off the virus Lawyer 6.66 which, when activated, consumes all available resources and brings your system to its knees. The funny thing is, if you try to hide Mistress 1.1 in high memory, Wife 1.1 will eventually detect it and begin the process described above.