Quicken & Vista

Hi, Jon.

I'm in the USA, have never been to the UK, and have never used Quicken XG. But I don't understand why Quicken XG (2004) would not work with Vista.

Where did you hear this? Have you actually tried Quicken XG on Vista? Do you personally know anybody who has tried it?

There should be some members here who can confirm or correct your understanding.

RC

Hi RC

Please see links below re non compatibility. Also have met with same problem myself

531869&sort=recommendations Jon

There are numerous internet postings that say that 2004 through 2006 programs for quickbooks, quicken and peachtree won't work with Vista. I know several people that have been able to get their programs to work. Vista allows you to install/run programs in XP compatibility mode. Do all options work properly? Probably not. In many cases it is not the operating system that is causing the problem. It is IE7 that is the culprit. Many people had problems on XP when they installed IE7.

Try installing 2004 on Vista to see if it will work. You may have to install it in XP mode to get it to work but it is worth a shot.

If you feel that it is not working then get 2008 Quicken and not QB pro. Unless you have needs to to invoicing, etc QB is overkill for most household financial tracking. I suspect that the sale person was just trying to con you into buying a more expensive program.

Hi, Jon.

While some users have reported compatibility problems, so far as I know, most have not.

During Vista's lengthy beta period, I tested several successive builds of both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Vista, starting in about August 2005 and continuing through Vista's RTM in November 2006. I've continued to run Quicken on Vista (mostly Ultimate x64) to the present. I installed (many times!) and ran Basic or Deluxe versions of Quicken 2005, 2006, 2007 and now

2008. While there were a few glitches (mostly with initial installations or with automatic installations of Quicken Releases), all versions of Quicken ran well with all versions of Vista.

I do not claim that there was perfect compatibility, or that I did not have frustrations sometimes. But, all in all, Vista had fewer problems with Quicken than with Photoshop or Nero or several other applications during the transition period.

This was with all-USA products, as I said, and I have no experience with UK versions of either Vista or Quicken. Your second link is not dated, so far as I can see, but it seems to have been written soon after Vista was released over a year ago, and the author was using it on a computer with only 512 MB of RAM, which is barely adequate to install Vista. That article includes this assertion:

"Vista won't run Quicken

"Intuit, the manufacturer of Quicken, stopped releasing UK versions of Quicken after Quicken 2004.

"But versions of Quicken up to and including 2004 will not run on Windows Vista. (You can install them, but they won't run)."

I have no way of testing whether that assertion was true, or if it is still true today. If you have information about the current status of Quicken XG

2004 and Vista, could you please update us all?

RC

Hi, Laura.

The OP's question was specifically about Quicken XG - the British version of Quicken. Do you have an answer to his specific question?

As to the US versions, I've reported several times here, and many other users have reported, that all versions of Quicken run on Vista (both 32-bit and 64-bit versions) with only rare exceptions, and without using WinXP compatibility mode.

I have no experience with either QuickBooks or PeachTree programs, but I've not heard any loud complaints.

RC

RC,

As we have discussed, I am now running Quicken 2001 (UK Edition) with Vista Home Premium without a problem. I'm not even running in a compatibility mode. It worked that way straight out of the box and I really don't see there is a general problem with older versions (at least) of Quicken and Vista.

Hi, Stevey.

Is that the UK (British) version of Quicken 99?

We're discussing the UK versions specifically, since we know that all US versions run fine with Vista. The OP said "I understand this application [Quicken XG (2004) in UK] will not operate on Vista." We're just trying to determine whether the XG versions of Quicken will or will not run on Vista.

RC