Disable registration popup

I recently installed Quicken Home & Business 2004 on a w2k machine. Previously I have been running on a Windows ME box. Whenever I update now it always takes me through the registration process with Quicken online. I have to cancel out then I can update. I have checked all settings and I cannot find where to disable the registration popup. It did not do this on the ME box. Where do I change the setting so it does not invoke the online registration process?

JPC

Reply to
John Callaway
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From Quicken Matt in the Quicken Forums hosted by Intuit.

"Hold down the Ctrl + Shift keys on the keyboard, and go to the Online menu. From the Online menu choose One Step Update. After selecting One Step Update, with Ctrl + Shift still held down, you will receive a message that states, "You will no longer be prompted for registration." At this point registration is disabled and you will not receive any further messages regarding it. These instructions will work for Quicken 2003-2005. For Quicken 2001-2002 you will need to use the Finance menu instead of the Online menu. All other instructions are the same."

Reply to
John Pollard

I've always said that the easiest thing to do is register with phony information. There is no check done. It takes a few seconds and then it's done. Better, IMHO, than spending so much time on finding a work around...

Regards, Hank Arnold

John Callaway wrote:

Reply to
Hank Arnold

Here is an answer someone gave me for the same question and it works:

Hold down CTRL+SHIFT at the same time, click on the Online menu, choose "One Step Update" (while holding down CTRL+SHIFT). You should see a dialog appears which states that "you will no longer be prompted for registration".

Enjoy.

Reply to
Jeff

But not being registered, you probably won't have access to lots of features. Maybe you won't be able to update your stock prices! Be careful for what you wish.

Reply to
Stubby

Boy, do they have you hooked!

Not true. I download with no problems and everything works fine. The only thing I do not get is Quicken's email ads.

Jeff

Reply to
Jeff

Well, I'm registered with Intuit as a Quicken user and I *never* get email ads. You're getting them some other way. If you don't want them, check if they allow unsubscribing.

Reply to
MikeB

That's perfectly fine, but the question asked was simply, is there a way to disable the registration popups and there happens to be one.

Those who wish to register their names with Intuit can always do so (with real or fake data) and those who prefer to retain their privacy now also have that option. It's the American way.

There are also those who elect to trust putting their financial data on Quicken's website and those who prefer to keep it encrypted on their own PCs.......

Cheers.

Reply to
Jeff

The good old American way. There is also the need to discern real from perceived threats and not to succumb to FUD.

Have you ever considered exactly what is uploaded to Quicken.com and how that could compromise your financial security? You upload an account name and an account balance or, for investment accounts, an account name, the securities and their holdings. No account numbers (unless one imbeds them in the account name), no social security numbers, no addresses. Just a list of stuff - the same as the lists you can keep/create on Yahoo and multiple other financial sites.

Have you ever heard of someone whose financial security/identity has been compromised from data stolen from such a list?

The data on your PC is a totally different matter. There you may have sensitive data that can be compromised, but the data on Quicken.com?

Reply to
MikeB

"account name, the securities and their holdings". I hope not. At least not willingly.

I do not keep them there either.

Data mining consists of combinijng information from many lists and then you'ld be surprised what is known about many of us.

As you said, some upload their information onto Quicken.com. Many do not.

As I said, if one feels safe, go for it. Some of us are less trusting. Besides, I was just supplying information someone requested: specifically how to disable the registration prompt. Anyone who does not want to know how to do that does not need to do it. And you are correct, there may be excessive paranoia, but even paranoids have enemies.

Peace, my friend. Time to move on.

Reply to
Jeff

And that's precisely what I was looking for.

Reply to
EG

Jeff: THANK YOU. I know this is an old post, but I had to re-install my quicken

2009. Old version but works great for my needs. The registration pop-up was driving me nuts. Other suggestions didn't work for me and yours did. Thanks again. Margie
Reply to
koko

replying to John Pollard, Bardi wrote: "You will no longer be prompted for registration."

Thank you !!!

Reply to
Bardi

For those using Quicken 2000 Canada - just go through the registration process and when it asks for your internet connection, choose Quicken's courtesy dial-up - once it errors out, it will tell you that you can register later, and the message never comes up again.

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JR

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