Dangers of upgrading Girlfriend 2.0 to Wife 1.0

Beware the upgrade. :)

Software Update:

Last year a friend of mine upgraded Girlfriend 2.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that 
it's a memory hog leaving very little system resources for other applications.  
He is only now noticing that Wife 1.0 also is spawning Child-Processes which 
are further consuming valuable resources.  No mention of this particular 
phenomena was included in the product brochure or the documentation, though 
other users have informed him 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.  He's finding that some applications such as Poker Night 10.3, Beer 
Bash 2.5, and Pub Night 7.0 are no longer able to run in the system at all, 
crashing the system when selected (even though they always worked fine before).  
At installation, Wife 1.0 provides no option as to the installation of 
undesired Plug-Ins such as Mother-in-law 55.8 and Brother-in-law Beta release.  
Also, system performance seems to diminish with each passing day.

The features he'd like to see in the upcoming Wife 2.0 include:
    * A "Don't remind me again" button
    * Minimize button
    * An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 to be installed with 
      the option to uninstall at any time without the loss of cache and 
      other system resources.
    * An option to run the network driver in promiscuous mode which would 
      allow the system hardware probe feature to be much more useful.

I myself decided to avoid all of the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by 
sticking with Girlfriend 2.0.  Even here, I found many problems. Apparently you 
cannot install Girlfriend 2.0 on top of Girlfriend 1.0.  You must uninstall 
Girlfriend 1.0 first.  Other users say this is a long-standing bug which I 
should have been aware of.  Apparently, the versions of Girlfriend have 
conflicts over shared use of the I/O port.

You think they would have fixed such a stupid bug by now.  To make matters 
worse, the uninstall program for Girlfriend 1.0 doesn't work very well, leaving 
undesirable traces of the application in the system.  Another thing that sucks 
- all versions of Girlfriend continually poop-up little 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 MS Money files before doing the 
uninstall itself.  Then Mistress 1.1 will refuse to install, claiming 
insufficient resources.

BUG WORK-AROUNDS
To avoid the above bug, try installing Mistress 1.1 on a different system and 
never run any file transfer applications such as LapLink 6.0.  Also, beware of 
similar shareware applications that have been known to carry viruses that may 
affect Wife 1.0.  Another solution would be to run Mistress 1.1 via a UseNet 
provider under an anonymous name.  Here again, beware of the viruses which can 
accidentally be downloaded from the UseNet.