Experience with moving Quicken 2005 to Vista

Experience in summary form.....

  1. 50% of the time Quicken crashes on exit.
  2. When you update a report, Quicken does not save new version of report.
  3. Updates stock prices ok and saves the price updates. The stock prices are saved even though later on the program crashes on exit.
  4. 50% crashes when finshing a data file backup. Wonder if it is some kind of permission problem. Got one error code 6779. Have no idea what that means.

Tom

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Spectrumone
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What Version of Vista? Ultimate, Business, Premium? 32-bit? 64-bit?

I have seen problems with legacy software on Vista Ultimate 64-bit.

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Melvin
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Spectrumone

In my case, Quicken 2005 Premier crashes 99.9% of the time when I leave the program following a data download. If I don't Update, I usually don't have a fault.

In general, I'd say Quicken's problems under Vista (which Intuit seems to be mostly ignoring) are probably due to file/directory permissions. From some of the threads on Intuit's site, one person noted that he couldn't get Quicken to work until he moved his data file from the default location under the Program Files directory to somewhere else. I've never had that kind of problem because I've NEVER used the default data file location (and what kind of company uses a default user data file location under Program Files? How long have we had some form of the (My) Documents folder (where such things belong)?). I also saw one person say that he couldn't get things to work until he moved the default program location away from being under Program Files. The odd thing, though, is that the symptoms vary from person to person. If it were just a permissions problem, I'd think everyone would have the same problems.

Yesterday, after doing my post-taxes computer clean-up, I needed to get rid of the old data file names from the File menu under Quicken. While looking for that INI file, I tried editing QUICKEN.INI under \ProgramData\Intuit\Quicken\Config (not the right location for that, but it showed Billminder as Off instead of On). I couldn't save the file. It definitely looks like Vista puts special permissions on the Program Files and ProgramData locations. Can Quicken, itself, modify its own configuration files? Since I have Billminder on and that INI says it's off, the answer seems to be "only sometimes."

I don't know what Intuit's going to do about these problems. These kinds of permissions things might require a big change to the way Quicken works. I have trouble believing Intuit will even patch Quicken 2007, let alone any earlier versions. They probably won't get it working until the next version (7 or 8 months from now).

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David A. Lessnau

David,

I find your comments particularly insightful - thanks.

With regard to your comments (quoted below), I am sure you're correct. Any excuse to force users to buy software...

---begin quote--- I have trouble believing Intuit will even patch Quicken 2007, let alone any earlier versions. They probably won't get it working until the next version (7 or 8 months from now).

---end quote---

I remember that Intuit really dragged their feet on whether they supported Windows 2000 (I think I was using Quicken 99 at the time); in that case I don't think they actually had problems. But they wouldn't talk to you if you were on this "unsupported" operating system.

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I find your comments particularly insightful - thanks.

With regard to your comments (quoted below), I am sure you're correct. Any excuse to force users to buy software...

---begin quote--- I have trouble believing Intuit will even patch Quicken 2007, let alone any earlier versions. They probably won't get it working until the next version (7 or 8 months from now).

---end quote---

I remember that Intuit really dragged their feet on whether they supported Windows 2000 (I think I was using Quicken 99 at the time); in that case I don't think they actually had problems. But they wouldn't talk to you if you were on this "unsupported" operating system.

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Melvin

Running Vista Premium on new HP dual core machine. Since my last post have communicated with Quicken tech and he had me supervalidate the mydata file. That validation fixed the problem of changed reports not being saved. But still get error 6779 on exiting Quicken. Have not seen any thing strange functionally since validation fix, but the error means something is still amiss.

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Spectrumone

I think those error numbers are Microsoft error numbers. Try searching the MS Support site for your error number.

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John Pollard

One other thing. If I wait for some indeterminate time after doing an Update in Quicken before exiting the application, the program tends to not crash. I have no idea if this is just the luck of the draw or an actual cause/effect type of thing. But, the few times Quicken hasn't crashed on exit following a download have been when I let the program sit for a few minutes before exiting. It doesn't make any sense, but I thought I'd add it here.

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David A. Lessnau

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