2006 unacceptably slow

Apr 05, 2006 3 Replies

I have recently upgraded to 5 user 2006 premier from 5 user 2003 premier. I have upgraded the client on 4 computers and those machines are running ok (a little slower than before, but acceptable). I did a fresh install of 2006 on a brand new P-4 3.2 with a gig of RAM and it is running incredibly slow. It accesses the same data on the server, the machines I upgraded from 2003 take about 5 secondes to open a company, the new machine take about 30 seconds to open the same company. I disabled the firewall, disabled the antivirus on both the client and the server (temporarily) and it had no effect. Everything else on the computer runs great and network speed seems otherwise great. I have re-installed quickbooks once and it had no effect. I then installed QB on my brand new laptop just for testing purposes and it did the same thing, 30 seconds to open a company. It appears that the clients that I upgraded from 2003 are fine, but the fresh installs are not. I restored one of the companies to 2003, and rebuilt the data, then converted it back to 2006, no change. I'm not sure where to go from here, Intuit wasn't much help and I'm almost sure the users will kill me soon.



Maybe you should have a look at the post on 4/1 with subject: "Slow or non-existant access to file on another computer"

Are other appplications as slow on the network? My inclination is your network card is slow.

Intuit knows QB2006 and QB Enterprise still has very serious speed problems, especially with large files. 2g+ on the server and 1g on workstations can help, but make sure you manually download the R5 upgrade at

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Be sure to read how to upgrade each copy of the program and the file locally. Also MAKE SURE the server is in HOST MODE. Consider QB Enterprise. You should be able to get credit on other QB2006 versions even if you have had them for a while.

Mike Block - QuickBooks Tax Cut C.P.A. Intuit paid me to make QuickBooks better!

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