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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?

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Matt
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Do you have the "Live Community" opening when Quicken starts? If so, try turning that option off, and restarting Quicken.

[Edit > Preferences > Quicken Program > Startup ---- uncheck the box "Open Live Community ....".]
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John Pollard

I turned off Live Community a couple of weeks ago. BTW, it was interesting that a number of people had similar complaints about R6, but those posts seem to have stopped appearing now.

Matt

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Matt

Matt:

I'm also experiencing the slow down on a quad-core 2.4 GHz 8GB Vista Ultimate 64 with Release 6. I can live with it for now, hopefully Intuit will tweak it in the next release.

Bob

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?

Reply to
Bob Wang

A couple of users have reported that telling Quicken not to look for transactions to schedule has improved response time.

On a pane of "Bill and Income Reminders" on the My Pages tab, click Options and uncheck "Review my accounts for candidate transactions".

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John Pollard

John-

I followed your advice but don't notice much, if any, change. After I accept a downloaded transaction it consistently takes 6 seconds before you can make your next click. Longer when switching to another account.

Matt

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Matt

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:Has a solution to this problem been found? I have had to reinstallQuicken 2009 H&B to Release 5 on my Vista 64-bit machine (new laptop). It will not run any better in Windows 7 64-bit. I bought 2010 H&B yesterday, noting it is compatible with W7 per the box -- no luck, even got tech support call-back, their only solution is to start a new data file (current one is 20MB). Yet that file runs REALLY WELL on Q2009 R5.

Cal

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