I have been using quicken for 20 years, starting with the DOS version. Over the years, and with numerous upgrades, I have noticed that the program has become progressively slower. I create a new data file every year, but of course my financial data is not purged.
When I "upgraded" to R6, I noticed a marked slowdown, much greater than I'd ever seen. Every time an entry is accepted from a download there is a delay, which it seems can take up to 5 or 10 seconds. There can be up to 100 new entries in a download, including bank and investment accounts, which eats up a large chunk of my time.
My PC is dual core AMD running XP Pro at 2.21 Ghz, with 2 GB RAM.
OK, so maybe it is my hardware. I just bought a new PC: Vista 64 on a
3.07 GHz CPU with 12 GB RAM. It's STILL slow. It seems like it's rewriting the entire database each time an entry is accepted.
Does anyone know what changed in R6 to create this issue? Is there any talk of a fix? R7?