Quicken Home Inventory - anyone get this to run?

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Well I just picked up my Quicken Premier 2008 and it came with a free copy of Quicken Home Inventory. Thought this was a good deal, until I tried to actually install QHI. It seemed to install fine, then when I tried to run it, it said I need .Net 2.0. Fortunately I knew what that meant, so I downloaded and installed .net 2.0.

However, every time I try to run the Home Inventory Program, it generates an exception. I tried this on two completely different computers, same result. Both running XP Pro with latest updates and SP2.

Anyone else having trouble with this? I have an e-mail in to support after an unsuccessful chat session with Intuit chat support.

RJ · Accepted Answer

Yes, I do/did, and it's probably because you have a Logitech wireless mouse and have the Mouse and Keyboard settings utility running in memory (look in your system tray). Stop setpoint.exe process and the Home Inventory program will run.

In my case, I'll let setpoint load at boot up and just stop it any time I want to access Home Inventory.

Craig · Answer

Great suggestion - I do have Logitech, and it so happens I have the exact same issue with Pinnacle Studio. At any rate, this wasn't the problem for QHI. I uninstalled it, and then reinstalled it, this time instead of clicking setup.exe, I clicked qhiinstall.exe, and the installation appeared to do a lot more, required a restart, and now finally loads.

Unfortunately, I also found that now I get a JIT debugger error when trying to convert my old QHI file. What a pain!! And no way to import/export as text file or anything, so I have to manually re-enter everything. I'm guessing there is very little R&D spent on this product. You can just tell it's not as polished. Even the box has a typo in the requirements section

800MB required for .Net 2.0

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