Quicken Deluxe 2004 & Vista?

"DotCom" wrote in news:4N6dnTxZ0epusLTYnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Quicken H&B 2007 is reported to work in Vista RC1 5600 x86.

scott s. .

Thanks Scott. I don't have Quicken H&B and don't plan on getting it. I have Q 2004 and was thinking of upgrading to 2007 if the 2004 version wasn't support in Vista.

Dotcom

Hi, DotCom.

While I haven't tried EVERY version of Quicken with EVERY version of Vista, I see no reason why EVERY combination would not work.

I've installed every build of the Vista beta since August of 2005, and have install Quicken Basic (either 2006 or 2007) in every build without a problem. Quicken 2007 was the easiest upgrade of them all. ;

GREAT info RC! And what a great idea! I also am running a dual-boot XP/Vista as well as a laptop on my network and would like to try what you describe below to access Quicken no matter what OS one is in. If I may ask, what does "E:" represent on your computer? Is that an external hard drive or just a another partition you created for this purpose? I have a large external that might work well for this purpose if it will allow installing to an external USB drive. dotcom

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"R. C. White" wrote

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Hi R. C.

Have you had many problems with x64 (compatibility, drivers, etc.)? There were a few posts regarding printing issues with Q in x64...

I'm not R.C., but I've been running x64 on a computer since around January. When I bought my Canon printer I made sure that it would have x64 drivers. I had to download them from the Canon site. Don't have many other peripherals. I just bought an external hard drive and x64 recognized it right from the start. My Nikon digital camera downloads pictures without a problem. I have a wireless adapter on this computer to connect to a home network. Dealing with the drivers for that was a bit hairy, but it works. However, I wouldn't want to have to try to install those drivers again because I don't remember what I did.

A good place to look for drivers and advice on this subject is

. And despite the name of the site, you don't have to have an AMD processor to benefit from it. The owner of a 64-bit Intel processor can learn just as much from the site.

"R. C. White" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com...

At the risk of being geeky, nitpicky and off-topic, I'd say you're not necessarily correct. The OS does have some impact on your drive and its accessibility. For one thing, if you use the NTFS file system, it's probably not going to work with an earlier version of Windows, like W95, that might use the FAT 16 or FAT32 file system. And you may not be able to see those files using DOS. Not that you would want to; I'm just pointing out that operating systems DO have an effect on your drive and whether or not it can be read by other operating systems. I don't know much about Linux, but I don't think Linux can read something from a "Windows drive," make changes to the file, save it back to the same drive and then have that file readable from Windows. (There are programs that lets Linux run Windows programs, but that's a different matter.) Anyway, to keep this off-topic item short, I just wanted to point out that I don't think it's possible for a drive to be neutral. The operating system doesnt have to be stored on that drive to have an effect on it. For example, I may have a computer with three hard drives but only one operating system (let's say Windows). Windows is only going to be installed on one drive. But Windows will still be the primary controlling factor in how the other two drives are formatted. If I don'ty format them for Windows, they will not be accessible to Windows. They may be "neutral," but they won't be of use to Windows.

Hi, Rick.

We haven't seen as much of you since Katrina. I'm glad to see that you survived and are back!

Yes, there have been compatibility problems with 64-bit Windows and Vista. :>(

But none of those have affected Quicken - in MY experience. ;

Hi, DP.

Geeky, nitpicky and off-topic are allowed. ; how the other two drives are formatted. If I don'ty format them for

Don't confuse the operating system with the file system.

You don't format them "for Windows". Just format them NTFS. Then WinXP or Vista (or Linux?) can use them.

It's true that MS-DOS can't read NTFS, of course, and Win95 can't even handle FAT32 without SP help. But I run nothing but WinXP and Vista, so that doesn't concern me. I know nothing of Linux or the Mac, but any OPERATING system that can read NTFS (the New Technology FILE System) can read my Drive E:

On my computer, there are currently TEN installations of WinXP and Vista. NONE of them keep their "boot folder" (\Windows) in Drive E:. But all of them can and do read and use applications and data that reside on Drive E:, which is formatted NTFS.

So far as my operating systems are concerned, Drive E: is a "neutral" (my term, remember) drive, formatted as NTFS.

RC

R. C.:

"It's true that MS-DOS can't read NTFS,"

This is getting WAY OFF topic in regards to Quicken, but there are utilities to allow read/write to NTFS partitions from DOS:

I used to have a Win98/DOS partition on all my drives to allow me to use Drive Image and Boot/Partition Magic.

BUT, since I started using True Image (Thanks to Margaret), I no longer need my small DOS partitions.

Bob

I just installed Q deluxe 2004 into Vista RC2. I had no problems with the install or opening of my data. I did very limited testing, but it seems to work just fine.

Thanks for the comments, R. C. and DP.

And R. C., I don't get to "play" here as much these days since I'm still deep into Katrina insurance claims, attorneys and, lately, my income tax return preparation (which is due much later for Katrina victims). But I lurk every few weeks and enjoy keeping up with the group.

"Rick Hess" wrote

Always good to hear from you.

You're welcome, Rick. I'm a displaced New Orleanian as well, currently living in Terrytown. And I haven't filed my taxes yet either.

Am I correct that I don't have to meet the Oct. 16 deadline if I have a refund coming?

And also, didn't they extend the deadline once again past Oct.16? Someone sent me a link to an IRS item that was very strangely worded, but I think that's the case. I'll look for it later and send it your way.

Ah... here it is

3003,00.html . Looks like it's not automatic, though. Looks like you have to ask for the extension. Here's the language: "However, an additional six-month filing extension, to April 16, 2007, is available to affected taxpayers whose 2005 due date was postponed from April

17, 2006, to Oct. 16, 2006. If an affected individual taxpayer needs additional time to file beyond Oct. 16, 2006, the taxpayer must file IRS Form 4868 by Oct. 16 to receive the additional six months."

I've been usiing Quicken 2006 H&B with all of the Vista Public releases so far (Beta 2, RC1, & RC2) with only minor problems.

-Had to run in Vista's XP SP2 compatability mode with RC1/RC2 to overcome some display issues.

-Quicken would not close properly in RC1, always generating a error in Vista. This has been corrected with Vista RC2.

-Vista treats the Qucken PDF "Printer" as the default printing device. Even if I set my actual hardware printer to the default, Vista will reset back to the Quicken virtual printer. I have yet to uninstall the Quicken PDF Printer device to permanently resolve this issue. Can anyone tell me what functionality I would lose in Quicken if I did so?

pennhaven wrote: > -Vista treats the Qucken PDF "Printer" as the default printing device.

I figured this one out. This is not a bug in Vista, rather it is a quirk in Quicken. While I hadn't been doing any actual printing with Quicken in Vista, I had been "printing" to tab delimited text files on disk in order to import Quicken portfolio views to Excel.

When I did this I was concentrating on what file and format I was "printing" to and ignoring the fact that the Quicken print dialog for the physical printer was set to the "Quicken PDF Printer". So everytime I used the "print" function to export my portfolio data Quicken was actually telling Vista to reset the default printer!

Once I changed the printer selection in Quicken to my actual default printer this problem was solved. While this is a relatively minor issue Quicken really should not be changing the operating system's default printer every time it "prints". The default printer selection should be left to the operating system not an application.

It sure does sound quirky; perhaps quirkier than you suggest.

1.) I do not see the behavior you see: I have Windows XP Pro and Q2004 H&B, R5. Changing the Quicken printer (or printing from Quicken to a non-Windows default printer) does not change the Windows default printer. 2.) I don't think Q2004 has been modified for a long time, so I'm guessing it issues the same instructions in my XP that it does in your Vista... or tries to anyway. I can't figure how Q2004 could have acquired the ability to modify the system default printer.