Upgrade to Vista yet?

Some rumors now contend that earlier versions of QuickBooks (QBP2004) can now run successfully on Vista.

I have the upgrade to Vista Premium but still running XP SP2 and QBP2004.

I tried to run Quickbooks 2006 on Vista Business. It installed and ran once, then failed every attempt after that. I finally bit the bullet and bought QB2007.

All the earlier versions of QB can be made to run on Vista. However, it takes a great deal of painstaking modifications to file and registry permissions. This not only has the potential to open your system up to hacks, it really is not worth the trouble IMHO.

And when you are done playing with your registry to get QB to work on Vista, move on to another program. Be prepared to do the same thing. Most software that is over a year or two old will not work properly (or at all) under Vista.

In addition to software, your printers will not work well or even work at all if they are over a year or two old.

I couldn't believe that Vista was reporting "not enough memory" with 1GB and all programs and "bloat" shut down when I simply trying to add a network printer.

Fortunately Dell shipped a free copy of XP pro to replace the useless Vista shipped.