Quicken 2005 and WinXP user accounts (can Quicken finally run without Admin priv's?)

after further research it appears the answer is yes, after 5 years (since Windows 2000's release), Intuit has finally programmed Quicken to the NT4 ('96) Win32 programming standard (most of which Win98 was compatible with in terms of registry key placement). no need to rush things, right?

So - no need for a further reply to this, unless there are some specific issues we should be aware of.

However, I've been running Q2001Deluxe inside a VMware virtual Win98 guest, which other than showing off how really badly Intuit wrote the screen GUI , works fine. After the TTax spyware fiasco (lying about it) I'm tempted to keep Intuit products in a VM away from my system (that's how I ran TTax this year)

Lawrence MCSE

it will work but there are still a few minor quirks that need awork around. share the Quicken folder and you will be ok

alan

Oh brother - they still couldn't / didn't get it right, even 5 years after the fact (or 8+ if you count NT4).

Other than combing through this group, has anyone compiled the 'quirks'?

I presume that sharing would be bad/wrong, and the c:\program files\{quicken}{or whatever the app directly is} could/should have its NTFS permissions changed to allow users modify access. Is this the same INI file issue mentioned elsewhere or a specific sub-dir ( same as for q2004 workarounds I've read about), rather than necessarily the entire application folder? BTW - there is a way to do this, even on XP home, though not for the feint of heart.

BTW - I'm presuming the data files are stored elsewhere (I always partition my HDs so c:\ = OS and apps, and d:\ = data)

For the record, I didn't find it necessary to do so. The program works for multiple user accounts as expected. The only letdown is that two separate users (with fast user switching enabled) cannot have Quicken running at the same time.

I have Quicken 2004 running on Windows XP SP2. Recently (maybe a month ago) I decided to try adding an admin account and make my "normal" account a limited one.

Quicken 2004 seems to run ok for day to day work. However, when I tried to do a backup (to my documents directory) I got an error. I ended up being able to run quicken with the "runas" command and do the backup. When I looked into it a little further, it looks like when you do a backup Quicken writes to about 6 files in the Quicken program install directory, which of course is a no-no if you aren't admin (files like QW.RMD, QW.CFG, etc).

Anyone know if there's a way to configure Quicken 2004 to write these files in user data directory instead of the install directory? It's a bit of a pain to have to remember to use the "runas" when I backup.

Open Quicken (and your Q data file), do a File > File Operations > Copy to where you want the file to reside.

I've had my Quicken data (indeed ALL of my data, for virtually ALL applications) on my D: drive for 10+ years ... all nicely arranged in app-specific directories.

I already have my Quicken data file saved in my document directory. I've been doing that for a number of years myself. Certainly makes backups easier.

The problem is that when Quicken does a backup, it's apparently running into some problem that causes the backup to fail. The message is pretty uninformative: Unable to access the disk in drive C: I'm assuming that Quicken is trying to write something where it shouldn't, but clearly it can update the data file, because it does that every day.

I haven't tried this but if you your log on does not write permission under XP to the folder it is backing up to then the backup will not work. Try loggin on as administrator and giving at least write permission to your "limited" logon.

Rick