Apologies if this has been answered a thousand times already, but I'm climbing the walls...
I have my original, old Quicken Deluxe 5 program which I ran on my old Win 95 machine. It also ran just fine when I upgraded to Win 98. My computer recently crashed, and was formatted and reloaded with an XP operating system.
I had copied my entire Quicken folder to CD just prior to this. I was also religious about running a backup every time I used the program (mostly for checking and simple bank transactions) and I have those backup (floppy) disks as well.
When I copy my saved Quicken folder from the CD to the computer's hard drive and try to run it, orwhen I try to open it on the CD, I get messages that QCTL3D.DLL and QCONNECT.DLL are not found, and am told to check the path and so forth. Nothing opens or runs.
When I attempt to do a fresh install of the program from my original Quicken Deluxe 5 disk, I am given some message about needing to make an altered CONFIG.SYS file-- a file I simply can't can't find anywhere.
The newest Quicken Deluxe (for 2005) indicates it will read older versions--but only specifically mentions 2003 and 2004.
My question(s): Is there some specific way I can correct this and have my old disk run on the XP OS?
How backwards compatible is Quicken Deluxe 2005? WIll it read data from a program purchased in...man, was it 1996, 1997 or so? I mean, the minute I open the box, I own the thing. I'm not averse to spending the money if I have some assurance that the newer version can salvage my old data, but nobody at Best Buy or Staples could tell me a damn thing, and I can't find any info at the Intuit site. I'd rather not cough up the cash if there's some other way around this.
Any suggestions (other than a flippant "It's time to upgrade! Come into the 21st century" would be appreciated.
TIA-- Jef.