Dear AS/400 Geek,

Several months ago I upgraded from GirlFriend 6.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that it’s a memory hog leaving very little system resources for other applications.  I also recently noticed that Wife 1.0 is also spawning Child-Processes which are further consuming valuable resources.  No mention of this particular phenomenon was included in the product brochure or the documentation, though other users have informed me that this is to be expected due to the nature of the application. Not only that, Wife 1.0 installs itself such that it is always launched at system initialization where it can monitor all other system activity. I’m finding that some applications such as PokerNight 1.3, BeerBash 2.5, and PubNight 7.0 are no longer able to run, crashing the system when selected (even though they always worked fine before). At installation, Wife 1.0 automatically installs undesired Plug-Ins such as MotherInLaw 5.8 and BrotherInLaw Beta release. As a consequence system performance seems to diminish with each passing day.  HELP! What do I need to do to straighten this mess out?
 
Answer: Just be patient.  Wife 2.0 is now in Beta and should be released soon.  Some features that will be included in the upcoming Wife 2.0:

- A “Don’t remind me again” button
- A Minimize button
- A clickable “no-sound” feature under Options
- An uninstall shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 to be installed with the option to uninstall at anytime without the loss of cache and other system resources.

I myself decided to avoid all of the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by sticking with GirlFriend 2.0. Even here, however, I found many problems. Apparently you cannot install GirlFriend 2.0 on top of GirlFriend 1.0. You must uninstall GirlFriend 1.0 first.  Another annoying problem - all versions of GirlFriend continually pop up annoying messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0.

***** 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 executing a self-uninstallation.

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