Quicken 2008 Deluxe Vista 64 bit - Couple of questions

I've been running Vista/64 bit for a year. I also run Q08D/R6 and it works fine. Can't answer your other questions.

"Don" wrote in news:kNmdneoPneOFd1ranZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Quicken, itself, will run on Vista x64 without problem. The only problems I'm having with it are with Billminder and its corresponding Gadget. Under Vista x86, these semi-worked. But, under x64, they give nothing. See:

If that link doesn't work (too long), go to the Quicken Community home page go to the Quicken for Windows forum, and then the Product Feedback and Suggestions sub-forum. It's my thread entitled: "Quicken 2008: Billminder and Gadget Problems". I've never printed anything to paper from Quicken, so I can't say anything about that. But, I download my financial information from many places online and have no problems.

Regarding your dual boot setup, I've never run anything like that. But, for a while, I ran Quicken under an XP Virtual Machine while also running it under Vista x86. I shared the folder that the Quicken data file was in so that both instances of Quicken could see the data. They each saw the data as being under a different drive letter but ran without problem. My guess is that your situation should be fine.

Dave Lessnau

Thanks for the info!

I don't use billminder, so should not be an issue there. Glad to hear you have no issues downloading your financial institution data. I may wait to see if any more feeback from folks that have run two instances in a dual boot environment before attempting it, sounds like it may just work ok.

Many thanks for the info David!

FYI, Coincidentally, WindowsSecrets.com's (used to be LangaList) most recent free newsletter has a discourse on dual-booting Vista/XP and sharing drive/folders etc. so it seems you could use the same Qkn dataset from either - but, of course, still not at the same time.

Thanks for that info, I will have to check that out.

Hi, Don.

Throughout the Vista beta (8/05 to RTM in 11/06), I ran Quicken 2005, 2006 and/or 2007 in each successive build of Vista, both 32-bit and 64-bit, and dual-booted into WinXP Pro and sometimes WinXP 64-bit, too. No significant problems - except for some hassles with installation of a new Quicken Release at one point. I haven't run WinXP in over a year. I've run (almost) nothing but Vista Ultimate x64 since November 2006, but dual-booted regularly for nearly 10 years before that. I installed Quicken 2008 Deluxe several months ago and have had no problems installing it or running it with Vista x64. I very seldom print anything from Quicken, but have not had any problems when I did print. I'm using an 8-year-old HP OfficeJet G55 Printer/Scanner/Copier with USB interface. I don't download transactions very much, but have recently added a couple of bank accounts to my daily One Step Update. I've downloaded price quotes daily for years with no problems except those occasional lapses that we've all experienced and griped about here.

Many years ago, probably when I first dual-booted WinNT4 and Win95 in about

1998, I began using multiple partitions and logical drives. I put Win9x on C:, Apps on D:, Data on E:, Archives on F:, WinNT on G;, etc. After many migrations, reformats, new hard drives, etc., in the decade since, Drive E: is still my Data drive - but it also holds many of my apps as well, including Quicken. (I always reserve the first partition on the first HD - traditionally Drive C:, but not always, especially with Vista - as the System Partition for just the few startup files, and never install Windows/Vista in that partition; it always goes to a separate volume and possibly to a second or third hard drive. Then I can get rid of a beta build or retire an old OS version or reorganize my file system by reformatting that volume - without disturbing my startup files and dual-boot menu on the System Partition. "Drive" letters get reassigned quite often, so I don't get hung up on those, and neither does Windows.)

Until WinXP x64, Drive E: also held my Program Files folder, and that was shared by all the Windows versions that I had installed at the time. I would boot into Win2K and install Office (for example) in E:\Program Files\Office; then I would boot into WinXP and install Office again into the same folder. Each OS would make entries in its own Registry, but they would share a single set of program files, including most of my "tweaks". I could start a letter in Win2K in the morning and finish that same letter in WinXP in the afternoon. That plan worked well until 64-bit Windows - first WinXP x64 and now Vista x64 - introduced a separate folder for 64-bit applications. The familiar "\Program Files" folder holds 64-bit apps and our 32-bit apps are pushed into a new folder called "\Program Files (x86)". The x86, as I learned too late, refers to Intel's CPU family that began with the 8086 and ended with the 80486 before Pentium - all 32-bit chips. This makes it very hard to try to share a common set of executable files with Vista x86 looking in PF for 32-bit apps and Vista x64 looking to the same PF folder for 64-bit apps. :>( Luckily, disk space has become so plentiful and cheap that I can now afford double installations of Office on each Boot Volume, but I miss the ability to share a single installation between two or more Windows versions.

Fortunately for me, I had used E:\QuickenW for years, ever since Quicken for Windows replaced the MS-DOS version. Even now, I've installed Q2008 there twice, once from Vista x86 and again from Vista x64. Both Windows versions happily use the same copy of Quicken and I don't have to try to synchronize my Preferences between two copies. ; to dual boot with XP Pro. Mainly to just play around with Vista 64 bit,

Don:

I'm running Q2008 H&B R6 on an HP d4995t Vista Ultimate 64-bit desktop, and a ThinkPad T61p Vista Ultimate 32-bit laptop. Both at 1920 x 1200 resolution. Just got my X61s that I'll be setting up this weekend, 32-bit Ultimate 1600 x 1200 native.

That said, what I like about Vista Ultimate 64-bit:

1) 8 GB PC2 6400 makes everything run much faster than my 3 GB PC2 5300 laptop. 2) I can print multiple copies of Q2008 reports over the network. With XP, I could only print 1 copy at a time. (Why do I need multiple copies? Ask my accountant ;-)) 3) Vista handles printing to my wireless HP 1320nw and wired Color LaserJet 2840 better than XP did.

What I don't like about Vista:

1) HP has not updated their printer management software for Vista, so I keep an XP d4100y on the network to keep an eye on toner level, fax, scan settings, etc. 2) Haven't yet figured out how to print color over the network using Vista, but I haven't tried very hard. 3) Cannot scan over the network since HP does not have Vista scanner drivers for the 2840, so I have to scan using the XP mule. 4) PrimoPDF cannot save how often to check for updates in Vista, so Primo on the XP machine, cutePDF on the Vistas. 5) In theory Vista SP1 will speed up copying large files by something like 20%, but on a gigabit wired network 1 sec vs 1.20 secs doesn't matter very much to me ;-)

Bob P.S. I second GSalisbury's plug for WindowsSecrets.com even though I don't dual-boot.

Most definitely!

I plan in installing Q08 into it's own new folder on the same drive I have Vista installed on, but hope to point it to my quicken data file on my XP drive, and share the same data file between both installations of Quicken, the existing one on my XP drive and the new install I plan to do on my Vista drive, will see how it goes...

Many thanks R.C., for the great information!

Many thanks Bob! I guess I got lucky, had complete drivers available for my HP 5610 All In One printer, have complete functionality with it in Vista 64.