quicken 2009

snipped-for-privacy@bellsouth.net wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

Well, I don't see any must have features over 2008. I will certainly wait until the comments come in and the first revision is out, and maybe I'll try Turbotax this year rather than TaxAct, if the incentive for a combo is good enough.

Wow - from the 'new features' tab, I must admit this 2009 product indeed looks lame. The only thing I personally see of interest in the new bill payment reminder feature. However, the way I use scheduled transaction groups, this too seems a little redundant - and in fact, with scheduled transactions going into the register at future dates (I use the 'PRINT' type to remind me to 'pay' upcoming transactions even though I don't physically print them. Then, once I do, I undo the 'print' transaction type indicating I took care of it), I am not sure what this will buy me. Hopefully it integrates into cash flow and such so that I can use this facility instead.

Of course, it isn't really fair to complain about something we haven't seen yet, so this comment is more a 'wish list' item! So we'll see.

Thanks to the OP for providing the link.

I don't see mention of them fixing the graphing, fixing all those things that compute using the IRR, a logarithmic scale, ...

Doesn't run on Windows 2000.

That's been my impression as well.

In other words, what in the world have they been doing for the past year?

Hi, bjn.

Cleaning up the obvious bugs that we all have been complaining about for years?

Like maybe figuring out how to account for Certificates of Deposit?

Like maybe correcting the Corporate Acquisition wizard that still asks for "cost", rather than Fair Market Value, of the new shares?

And several others that don't come to mind right now, but will as soon as I start using Q2009 - or that I'll remember when I use Q2008 today?

If THAT's what they've been doing, instead of adding new bells and whistles, then I'm ready to update to Q2009 right now! I'll be watching for reports about THESE features from early adopters.

RC

19581469&sr=8-1 And this is a surprise???? For crying out loud, W2K is 8 years old!!!

"Hank Arnold (MVP)" wrote in news:48b937d7$0$20904$ snipped-for-privacy@cv.net:

It may not be a surprise, but XP isn't that much younger, is it? ANd it still seems to be the preferred OS among Windows. I have a Vista laptop (Home basic, so far, as the performance index is 2.3, but I'll try to put the better cpu in it today). Vista has NOT lived up to its billing. It is sufficiently different from XP to cause user problems, requires too much horsepower, and offers little benefits other than bells and whistles, but maybe a better edition than home basic will show more benefit. Now I have my Acer redo disks, it will just be a question of swapping hard drives for more experiences, including ubuntu.

Han, I'm running XP Pro SP3 on my main desktop and Vista HP32 on my laptop, which is running 3GB RAM and a fast dual CPU. Performance index = 4.7. Vista is better now that SP1 is out (and I've turned off much of the eye candy), but there are still certain hardware compatibilities that have caused trouble for my friends (not to mention me and countless others). One example is an HP network printer, two years old. Unfortunately HP hasn't updated their Vista drivers for this and newer network printers since 03/2007. I blame HP for this however....

I've finally gotten Vista to the point where it runs well, and I have most of its idiosyncrasies worked out to where I'm fairly comfortable. But if it's true that MS is hard at work on the next version of Windows, supposedly a lightweight, modularized OS with more compatibility and far less bloat, I'll be moving from Vista to that. Still, XP Pro SP3 does all and I need and more, and if my (printer problem) friends had stayed with XP, they'd be happily using their HP network printer instead of going to Circuit City this weekend to pick up a wireless Lexmark with the hope it will work with Vista.

Sigh.... But this is the stuff that kept me with plenty to do in my working days. :-)

Regards,

Margaret

Hi Margaret,

Can you supply some model numbers for those printers whose problems you know are caused by outdated drivers?

So many people post having printer problems with Vista and insisting that those problems are caused by Quicken, when I believe most are caused by printer drivers, which are the responsibility of the printer manufacturer. And are a problem with virtually every new (Windows) operating system.

Margaret wrote in news:mLmdnXakhothyCTVnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

I had bought a $400 Acer Aspire 3680-2633. I added RAM to 2 GB (~$100), replaced the DVD-ROM with a DVD & CD writer (~$80), and just now replaced the 1.6 GHz Celeron M processor 520 with a Core 2 T7200 @ 2 GHz (off Ebay, from Hong Kong, ~$180). "Windows Experience Index" went from 2.3 to 3.0, and I am wondering whether this is enough to uograde from Vista Home Basic to Home Premium. When I started the upgrade process, MS told me that it was $80 + $5 shipping + $5 tax, and would take up to 4 weeks, so I said thanks, but no thanks ...

I wish I could get all the drivers for XP, but that seems an empty wish. SO far I have not been able to get Vista SP1 installed.

I have not had problems with printing, but it is really handled over the network through my XP desktop (Brother HL 5040& Canon iP6700). I have a scanner (some Canon), but have not connected it to my laptop (why should I?).

Just about all my software works. There is only 1 small hitch - I use a program called Mailwasher that prescreens email from all my accounts, and from which I can delete emails off the servers if I deem them worthless or worse. It is supposed to fire up my Eudora and tell her to getmy mail, but that does not work 100%. It works the first time,because Eudora is set to get mail on startup (and then every 24 hrs), it does not work anymore the next time, like in XP. small problem, really.

Margaret wrote:

I just bought a discontinued HP LJ6055 All-In-One. The software that came with the printer was not Vista compatible (according to info on the CD), although the Vista computer did find a compatible driver for the printer portion of the unit. But there was a Vista compatible version of the software on the HP Web Site.

So, HP IS upgrading even their older, discontinued models to Vista.

A friend bought an Acer and was able to find all the drivers for XP except for the modem. I cannot find his email but he found all the drivers on ACer's web page. The following might help. I suggested he buy a new HD and install XP to it and keep his Vista as a backup. It worked for him but this was about 5 months ago.

snipped-for-privacy@rr.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Thanks!!! I'll try on a separate hard drive. Except for Bios settings, that should yield me 2 machines with identical hardware, and make it possible to switch easily.

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So I should stop using software that still works fine just because it is a few years old?

The latest from Microsoft is that Windows 7 will be based upon the bloated Windows Vista. Don't look for lightweight.

bjn wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

No, you shouldn't. But you shouldn't expect software that is designed speciically to run on W2000 to work also on Vista. As a corollary, while both gasoline and diesel engines work fine, you shouldn't expect a diesel engine to run on gasoline .

19581469&sr=8-1>> And this is a surprise???? For crying out loud, W2K is 8 years old!!! > >

A few years old??? 8 years is a lifetime in the PC software business. MS stopped all support for W2K a while ago. I can't fault Intuit for *this* move....

If you want to stay with W2K, you can stay with Q08 or earlier.

I wasn't.

However, now that you mention it, that was a design goal for Microsoft when Vista was developed, that software designed for Windows 2000 would also run on Vista. If it weren't a Vista design goal, quite a few corporations would not be happy with Microsoft.