Subject: Failed Upgrade
Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0 and noticed that the new
program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of space and
valuable resources. No mention of this phenomenon was included in the product
brochure. In addition, Wife 1.0 installs itself into all other programs and
launches during system initialization, where it monitors all other system
activity. Applications such as Smoking 10.3, Boozing 2.5 and Saturday Night Pubs
5.0 no longer run, crashing the system whenever selected. I cannot keep Wife 1.0
in the background while attempting to run some of my other favorite applications
like Night Club 4.3, Dance 'n' Drink 2.0 and Bachelor Party 7.77. I am thinking
about going back to Girlfriend 7.0, but the uninstall does not work on this
program. Once I tried to uninstall Wife 1.0 but got this error: "General
Protection Fault in module House Security. The Uninstallation will abort." Can
you help me, please?
Here was the reply from Tech Support:
Re: Failed Upgrade
This is a very common problem among men, but it is due mostly to a primary
misconception. Many people upgrade from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0 with the idea
that Wife 1.0 is merely a UTILITIES & ENTERTAINMENT program. Wife 1.0 is
actually an OPERATING SYSTEM and designed by its creator to run everything. It
is unlikely you would be able to purge Wife 1.0 and still convert back to
Girlfriend 7.0. It is impossible to uninstall, delete, or purge Wife 1.0 from
the system once installed. You cannot go back to Girlfriend 7.0 because Wife 1.0
is not designed to do this. Some have tried to install Girlfriend 8.0 or Wife
2.0 but end up with more problems than the original system. Look in your manual
under "Warnings-Alimony/Child Support;" this was given to you at time of
registration with Wife 1.0. I recommend you keep Wife 1.0 and just deal with the
situation. Having Wife 1.0 installed myself, I might also suggest you read the
entire section regarding General Partnership Faults (GPFs). The best course of
action will be to enter the command C:\APOLOGIZE. In fact I would suggest you
use this command every time Wife 1.0 crashes on your system. Wife 1.0 is a great
program, but very high maintenance. Consider buying additional software to
improve the performance of Wife 1.0. I recommend Flowers 2.1 and Chocolates 5.0
or Movies 4.5. Do not, under any circumstances, install Visual Secretary With
Short Skirt 3.3. This is not a supported application for Wife 1.0 and is likely
to cause irreversible damage to the operating system. Recent surveys show
add-ons like Visual Dress 2.0, Diamond Necklace 3.0, and A Quick Tour To Temple
1.0 are the best Third Party tools supported by Wife 1.0 to allow it to run
smoothly and effectively.
Best of luck!
