Dialog Box Location on ACreen

I suspect you're right that you can't do what you want. But the correct answer is outside my knowledge area. [As I recall, my One Step Update dialog always appears in the middle of my monitor screen, so at least part of it is always within my Quicken window. I can't make my Quicken window narrow enough to cause the OSU dialog to be totally outside the Quicken window.]

I suggest you post your question in the Quicken Community; I think there are a couple of SuperUsers there who could give you a good answer.

Yes, back when I had two 24" monitors, I also didn't have the problem. It just started with my new superwide 34" monitor.

OK, thanks. Can you point me to where it is? I've never posted there.

OK, I'm now a registered Community User and I asked there. It wasn't easy to find out how to ask a question.

If someone posts an answer, do I get E-mail notification of it, or do I have to keep going back there to look for it?

Thanks again.

It's been a long time since I posted there, so I may be wrong, but you MAY be automatically notified about responses to a discussion you initiated.

The other way to get notified, is to "bookmark" the discussion (which, I believe, you can do for any discussion). See:

No, I'm not. I just went back there to check and found a reply (it wasn't helpful).

I just went to that page. It says "you can click the bookmark symbol on the thread to bookmark the post, and you’ll be notified when the issue is updated." I had a hard time finding the bookmark symbol, but I finally did and just clicked it.

For those wanting to see any comments posted in the Community discussion, see:

I've gotten no other replies, so I guess my suspicion was correct and there's no way to do what I want.

I eventually realized that this is not a Quicken issue. It's a Windows issue. It's all (almost all?) dialog boxes, not just Quicken's.

Further research has shown that there's apparently no way to do what I want, so I guess I'll just have to live with it the way it is.

I asked a very knowledgeable person about this.

Individual Windows applications do have control over where their dialogs and windows are initially presented on the screen. But it's unlikely that any application will offer its users the ability to control that initial position.

Further: Quicken, in particular, chose early on, to implement the product in a non-Windows-standard way. Many of today's display issues are impacted by that early decision, and could likely only be changed by a very long and expensive rewrite of most/all the code. The known experiences of Quicken for Mac users who have gone through such a major rewrite should give a hint at how long that would also be a very unpleasant experience for Quicken for Windows users.

That is my conclusion as well.

Thanks very much for trying to help. It's a very odd standard to have in these days of large monitors. Before I got my 34" monitor, I never even noticed this.

I don't think Intuit ever intended what you're seeing now - I wouldn't consider what you're seeing a "standard". Predicting the future is not an easy task.

I think Intuit made choices that seemed sensible to them at the time ... the decisions were made in the very early days of Windows. As time went by, the old code continued to "work" well enough to make it increasingly financially difficult to change it as more serious problems were discovered.

The general problem - that yesterday's decision, often does not work out so well in the long run, but is too expensive to correct - is not uncommon for software products.