Eternal Web Connect query

The simplest possible fix is to answer "Yes".

If that does not eliminate the question; you need to change the "application configured for handling Web Connect data", where web-connect data refers to files with the ".qfx" extension.

You can change the program used to "open" ".qfx" files in Windows Explorer, Tools > Folder Options > File Types; scroll down to QFX and "change" the name of the program that "opens" qfx files to point to the exact location (fully qualified file name) of your Quicken application.

Normally, Quicken assigns the Quicken program to the .qfx extension at installation; sometimes it fails, but I think you can sometimes get it to work by removing the current assignment in Windows Explorer (Advanced > (select "open") > Edit > clear the "Application used to ..." field) then reinstalling Quicken.

"John Pollard" wrote in news:W6etf.445210 $084.315022@attbi_s22:

Thank you, John. This shows one weakness in my earlier query. I did not make it clear that I do NOT WANT to utilize Quicken for any Web Connect activity.

I do not download from financial institutions; stopped that years ago after too many duplicates ended up taking me longer to weed and purge than just entering the information straight.

And I do not trust Quicken (Intuit, really) to not go "behind my back" to send and receive information over the web. So I simply don't want it to have online access. I don't want it to be configured for Web Connect. I just want it to stop asking me the bedamned question!

Thanks, Catherine

It shows more than one weakness.

The only assumption I ever made from your original post was that you did not want to see the prompt any more. Answering this question (eliminating the question) has NOTHING to do with whether you actually download anything.

You can tell Quicken that it is the default application to handle web-connect downloads ... even though you never never ever ever plan to, or actually do, any downloads to Quicken. Getting rid of the question does not require you to ever download anything.

the problem is that it will not stop even after answering "YES". comes right back the very next time. I too am getting plenty tired of having to answer this. I don' t use the web connect data transfer as well.

I said, "The simplest possible fix is to answer 'Yes'". I didn't say the ONLY possible fix was to answer Yes.

I also previously provided a second approach to try to eliminate the question: you don't say whether you tried that.

And I believe there is a third possibility: uninstall Quicken, then re-install Quicken.

Re-reading my previous post, I see that I actually also said to try reinstalling Quicken. So that's two approaches that you did not address in your post.