Quicken 2009 Deluxe on Windows 7

Hi, Gang.

Thanks to my MSDN subscription, I was able to download and install Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (RTM) today. One of the first applications I installed, of course, was Quicken 2009 Deluxe. As usual, I installed it to E:\QuickenW. It calmly overwrote the existing Q09D which I had been running earlier today on the RC (Release Candidate) version of Win7. On the final screen, I declined the invitation start Quicken, and clicked Done instead. Then I browsed to my *.qdf file, clicked it, and Quicken started with my current data loaded and ready to go! ;

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R. C. White
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Ken Blake

R.C. Why the install on E:? Is that a partition on your main drive or external drive or??

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Meebers

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Andrew Rossmann

Hi, Meebers.

Long before the "Program Files" folder was introduced, I started using multiple partitions to organize my computer. When things were still simple, Drive C: was for Windows, D: for Applications and E: for Data. Then I started dual-booting with Win95/NT4 - and my logical organization got disorganized. But Quicken was still installed in E:\QuickenW, with the "W" a holdover from when Quicken moved from MS-DOS to Windows in the early

1990's.

For a few years, I dual-booted Windows versions that couldn't read NTFS or FAT32 or vice-versa. But I made sure they could all read Drive E: - and kept installing Quicken there. In fact, I could install a single copy of Quicken from multiple Windows versions (Win98 and Win2K, for example), letting each of them make entries in its own Registry, but sharing the qw.exe and other program files - and a single Quicken fileset. When Program Files was introduced, I continued to use E:\QuickenW for Win2K, WinXP, Vista - and now Win7. When I installed WinXP x64 - my first 64-bit OS - and encountered "Program Files (x86)", I became very glad that I had E:\QuickenW! Both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows can run Quicken from there. ; R.C. Why the install on E:? Is that a partition on your main drive or

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R. C. White

R.C. Wow!! Had to read it 4 times before it soaked in but understand your setup now. I am still running Win7 RC 64 with Q09H&B without any issues but

*I* must wait until 10/22 to switch to RTM. Our chat about ~5 months ago concerning the annuities and maintaining net worth has been working just fine...Tx again.

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Meebers

Hi, Meebers.

Oh, good! Maybe now you can explain it to me! ;>

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R. C. White

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