Quicken 2008 Speed

Tom:

I'm running a Pentium 4 desktop, 3GHz, 1MB RAM. Going Vista Ultimate 64-bit next month :-)

I went from H&B 2007 to H&B 2008 this last weekend. If anything, One Step Update completes MUCH faster for me. Going from account to account is pretty much instantaneous with maybe a slight flicker.

Bob

5 seconds to pull up the new account. The old version went from account to account virtually instantly. When I clicked on the Portfolio View button, again it took 5 seconds to pull up the screen. This is running on an Athlon X2 3800 PC, not state of the art, but not a 2006 PC either.

Is everyone seeing a massive slow down?

Thanks.

My 08 H&B compares to the 07 version...no delay

I'm running Q2008 Premium in parallel with Money 2006, preparing to dump MS Money. I've just started, and my data file is small, but Q2008 seems lighting fast compared to Money. I haven't seen any delays anywhere in the app.

My condolences.

Wow. If Q2008 is the same speed as Q2007, then MS Money must be as slow as molasses in the winter.

Heh.

Actually, I'll have 2 WinXP Pro machines on the network to manage my HP CLJ2840 and B/W LaserJets since HP Director and Toolbox have not been updated for Vista.

Not to mention TI Flash, etc., etc., etc.

It *IS* funny that the Vista Ultimate x64 needs "backup."

Bob

My condolences.

Completely OT and unasked for, but I hope you have a compelling reason (other than "just want to run 64-bit") to go to the 64-bit platform. It is much less supported than the 32-bit Windows and Vista and you'll probably miss a lot of things that won't work in 64-bit. Not only that, but Vista as a whole is very disappointing.

I've bought a PC with Vista pre-installed and "downgraded" back to XP pro. In addition I've put off upgrading any of my XP machines. My sister is downgrading back to XP as well.

I've heard references to Vista that equates it with Windows ME - that all-time suckiest Windows released by MS. From my personal experience I have to agree.

Mike:

Nope, no compelling reason. In fact, I had held off this long due to the horror stories about Vista. I thought about getting identical ThinkPads, one with XP Pro, and the other with Vista Ultimate 32-bit, but decided to go with Vista 32-bit.

64-bit is a whole different animal, Lenovo will do XP Pro for desktops, HP Small Business also. But, I also wanted HD-DVD on my next desktop (I'm placing my bet now in that VHS / Beta redux ;-))

I may not have looked hard enough, but I didn't see a way to get HD-DVD without Windows Vista from HP. I'm keeping XP Pro on my other desktops, 2 current laptops, 2 semi-retired laptops, so I'll have plenty of backup.

Vista may end up being the next ME, but I've actually been pleased with how Office Pro 2007 has been running on my Vista Ultimate 32-bit ThinkPad. My main Access 2007 (using 2000-2003 file format) database is ~200MB, and it is MUCH snappier than Office 2003 and XP Pro on my laptop I bought just last summer.

Thanks for the heads up, though. I know there are going to be some bumps along this road.

Bob

Completely OT and unasked for, but I hope you have a compelling reason (other than "just want to run 64-bit") to go to the 64-bit platform. It is much less supported than the 32-bit Windows and Vista and you'll probably miss a lot of things that won't work in 64-bit. Not only that, but Vista as a whole is very disappointing.

I've bought a PC with Vista pre-installed and "downgraded" back to XP pro. In addition I've put off upgrading any of my XP machines. My sister is downgrading back to XP as well.

I've heard references to Vista that equates it with Windows ME - that all-time suckiest Windows released by MS. From my personal experience I have to agree.

My experiences parallel yours. Vista has way too many issues and hurdles to overcome, all self-inflicted.

Windows Vista = Windows ME. Ha! I had not heard that before, but based upon my experiences, it is entirely appropriate.

You'll always get the early adopters who don't mind fignting the OS; but I like the OS to serve me and my interests, not vice versa.

You mis-type should be upgrading back to XP!