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By Bagheera
01 October 2007
I really. really wish I could claim the credit for this - but I have to be honest and admit that it brought a tired smile to this cynic's lips when I read it (of all places!) on the local Freecycling website on a wet and dismal Monday morning .............

A mans computer


Dear Technical Support,
18 months ago, I upgraded to Girlfriend 1.0 from DrinkingMates 4.2, which I
had used for years without any trouble.
However, there are apparently conflicts between these two products and the
only solution was to try and run Girlfriend 1.0 with the sound turned off.
To make matters worse, Girlfriend 1.0 is incompatible with several other
applications, such as LadsNightOut 3.1, Football 4.5, and Playboy 6.9.
Successive versions of GirlFriend proved no better.

I tried a shareware program, Slapper 2.1, but it had many bugs and left a
virus in my system, forcing me to shut down completely for several weeks.
Eventually, I tried to run GirlFriend 1.2 and Girlfriend 1.0 at the same
time, only to discover that when these two systems detected each other they
caused severe damage to my hardware.

I eventually upgraded to Fiancée 1.0, only to discover that this product
soon had to be upgraded further to Wife 1.0. While Wife 1.0 tends to use up
all my available resources, it does come bundled with FreeSexPlus and
Cleanhouse2005.

Shortly after this upgrade, however, I found that Wife 1.0 could be very
unstable and costly to run. Any mistakes I made were automatically stored
in Wife 1.0's memory and could not be deleted.
They then resurfaced months later when I had forgotten about them. Wife 1.0
also has an automatic Diary, Explorer and E-mail filter, and can, without
warning, launch TurboStrop and Multi-Whinge.
These latter products have no Help files, and I have to try to guess what
the problem is.

Additional problems are that Wife 1.0 needs updating regularly, requiring
ShoeShop Browser for new attachments and Hairstyle Express which needs to
be reinstalled every other week. Also, when Wife 1.0 attaches itself to my
Saab 93 Convertible hard drive, it often crashes.
Wife 1.0 also comes with an irritating pop-up called MotherInLaw, which
can't be turned off.

Recently I've been tempted to install Mistress 2003, but there could be
problems. A friend of mine has alerted me to the fact that if Wife 1.0
detects Mistress 2003, it tends to delete all of your Money before
uninstalling itself.

Help requested please

Reviews
Hi Bagheera
Written by jean.day (2327 comments posted) 1st October 2007
It was fun reading this. I'm glad you posted it.

Written by woody44 (777 comments posted) 2nd October 2007
 
Strangely enough Paul I saw this one in our local neighbourhood magazine a few months ago. Still laughed when I read it again though! Hope you are having some success with your writing in the unforgiving world out there... 
 
Roger

Written by Phil (6845 comments posted) 2nd October 2007
Heard this one on Radio Five a couple of weeks ago. Well worth another read. 
 
Phil.

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