quicken 6 for dos. is it obsolete?

It's no more obsolete than smoke signals to communicate.

New versions of Quicken can import older Quicken files but you may have to go in several steps to do so, someone else can give you details or you might contact Intuit's help.

I should also mention that Windows XP is equally obsolete.

Perhaps, however *I* shall be using it until MS stops providing Security updates for it. Windows 8 SUCKS.

From: "jim"

I'm still using Quicken 8 and use in under Vista and WinXP ;-)

From: "XS11E"

No, not yet.

Microsoft doesn't seem to understand that many people use computers for other reasons than simply playing games and posting to Facebook and aren't amenable to unnecessary upgrades.

I've been running a small business on XP ever since it was introduced. I was recently tempted to upgrade to Win 7, not because I needed anything it offered but just to keep up with the times. After considerable investigation, I discovered Win 7 would not run one of the programs critical to my business so upgrading is out of the question. I'll be with XP until it (or I) die.

From:

Win7/64, Vista/64 and WinXP/64 can't run DOS programs.

The 32 versions can, albeit I have not tried Win7/32 or Win8/32. Quicken 8 for DOS runs fine under WinXP/32 and Vista/32.

It should still work fine. 32-bit versions of Windows will still be able to run it. For 64-bit, you would need to run it in a virtual machine.

When I try to do a year end tax report in Quicken 8 for DOS in either WinXP/32 or Vista/32, Quicken says not enough memory and quits.

So, what settings are you using to allow large reports to work?

By the way, the same report works fine in Quicken 8 for DOS running in the DOS box under OS/2 or eCS.

From: "Fred J. Tydeman"

Nothing. I have never had a problem.

Under the PIF to run q.exe on the "Memory" tab

Memory is et to 640K, everything else is set to 240.

After loading Quicken/DOS v8 Rel 7 I hit "M" for memory

The results under Vista/32

------------------------------------- Max. Acct. setting : 64 Overlay size (kb) : 48 NR Memory (kb) Total: 228 Avail: 228 Heap (bytes) Total: 23808 Current: 23296 Program Use count : 3693 Securities : 0 (0 ) EMS memory not present or disabled

The results under XP/32

------------------------------------- Max. Acct. setting : 64 Overlay size (kb) : 48 NR Memory (kb) Total: 212 Avail: 212 Heap (bytes) Total: 24032 Current: 23520 Program Use count : 3903 Securities : 0 (0 ) EMS memory not present or disabled

Correction:

"Memory is et to 640K, everything else is set to 240."

Should have been...

"Memory is set to 640K, everything else is set to 1024"

I'm still receiving updates to Windows XP via Windows Update each month on patch Tuesday.

Doesn't mean it's not obsolete, there's new software and hardware that won't run on anything earlier than Vista.

Right, it's obsolescent, not yet obsolete.

I to had a similar problem but I upgraded to WIN 7 and then installed the XP virtual machine and the program runs just fine.

I was a little concerned about Win 7 but now have 5 machines running it with absolutely no problems. I installed the virtual machine to run a home automation program written for windows 98. It ran fine on Win XP but not on Win 7.

You might want to try that.

Marty

Microsoft WILL continue to supply updates to XP users until sometime summer 2014. I'll probably be hanging on until then unless I find a damn good deal on a Windows 7 machine. Otherwise, I'm hoping that a much better Windows 9 comes out before the sun sets on XP updates.

Everything on *my* XP system works just fine, thank you.

XP support ends in April 2013. After that, no more security updates, and software companies may start to drop support. Alot of software no longer supports Win2K, even though XP was little more than Win2K with updates (Win2K=Windows 5.0, XP= Windows 5.1). The main issue is often due to a few new function calls in the Windows kernel. They can easily start using software that uses Vista/7/8 unique function calls.

It runs what I need it to run, and then some. Indeed, in one area (digital audio workstation software), Windows XP is better and less buggy than Windows 7.

Just because there is software that requires a newer version of the OS does not mean that the currently supported version is obsolete.