[SOLVED] How to disable Quicken 2016 from asking me to update to 2018? (2023 Update)

How to disable Quicken 2016 from asking me to update to 2018? The program ignores the little checkbox indicating I don't want to be reminded again! I'm running Quicken Deluxe 2016 on Windows 7 Pro.

Reply to
lkeenan408
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Unclick the box in the lower left corner that says to remind me in the future.

Reply to
Paul Mix

Try this (from a prior post)...

From: Robert Wilson replying to kenneth63, Robert Wilson wrote: I found a fix for the upgrade nag using Quicken 2013 Premier. Find the app/roaming folder on your machine. On my Windows 10 machine, the path is c:\Users\Username\Appdata\Roaming. From this Roaming folder, go to the \intuit\quicken\config folder. You should see a file named QUSER.INI. Double click on it to open it. To make sure that quicken is using this QUSER.INI file, notice the number after the ExecNum= (in my file, it's the 2nd line). Exit out of the QUSER.INI file. Restart Quicken. Quit Quicken. Open the QUSER.INI file. the number after ExecNum= should have increased by 1. If this is the case, change the number to 0 and save the file. Exit QUSER.INI and right click the file. Select Properties. Under the attributes section, select read only. This prevents Quicken from changing the number after ExecNum=. I found that if the number is less than 4, the nag screen doesn't appear. Note: Before doing this, make sure that the most recent files list is the way you want it. Quicken won't be able to change this list. This is not a problem for me, since I use the same file every time.

Reply to
BookReader

That doesn't work for me.

Reply to
nobody

It should work until Quicken Inc. posts a new advertisement.

Reply to
Sherlock

But it doesn't.

Reply to
Taxed and Spent

But it does.

Reply to
Sherlock

Lucky you!

Reply to
Taxed and Spent

I doubt I'm the only one. It's more like "Unlucky you!"

The question is: Are you doing anything "unusual" that might prevent Quicken from tracking your request to not be reminded?

Reply to
Sherlock

Not that I can think of. Any ideas?

Reply to
Taxed and Spent

What I do (2017 version) is to click the update link which just opens the quicken web site and then go back to work. You might try that.

Reply to
Marc Auslander

I suspect Quicken Inc is maintaining its "marketing" state apart from the data file. If you haven't recently, I suggest performing a clean uninstall, install and update. You may want to review:

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To update Quicken, I recommend you download and apply the Mondo Patch:
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Reply to
Sherlock

Robert Wilson wrote in news:_kpVB.84406$ snipped-for-privacy@fx20.am:

Thanks. Looks like a perfect solution.

scott s. Robert Wilson posted this a couple of weeks ago. I used it and found it to work well R. Wink

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Reply to
rwwink

yeah, for this I want to do a whole reinstall. LOL.

Reply to
Taxed and Spent

That is what I had been doing, and have posted that another guy.

Reply to
Taxed and Spent

I guess you just prefer to complain rather than try to do something about it. LOL.

Reply to
Sherlock

This seems to work for me.

Reply to
nobody

This seems to work for me.

I uncheck mine every time I start up, still the nag is there next time

Reply to
wabbleknee

replying to Paul Mix, BigErn wrote: I've been doing that every day for 4 months without success Paul

Reply to
BigErn

That is pretty amazing.

Reply to
Taxed and Spent

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