Run Q99 on USB drive?

Quicken has to be installed to run. If you tell the Quicken's setup program to install it to your removable drive, it *may* run. I haven't tried it myself, but no guarantees. I'm guessing that you want to be able to take your whole Quicken installation from machine to machine, no? Well that won't work, since Quicken has to be installed. You can't just copy files and run them from wherever.

Regards,

Margaret

yes that is what I want to do.... run Q99 form machine to machine

If Q99 wont do this does anyone know of another similar app that will?

John

Sorry, no. There aren't that many financial management apps out there, and I don't know of a one that is portable. You must install the software on each machine from which you plan to use it. But you could carry your data files from machine to machine ... that is, as long as you've installed Quicken on those machines. All this said, I don't exactly remember what the license agreement says about putting Quicken on multiple machines. Some software allows two machines if you only use one at a time, others require a separate license for each machine.

Regards,

Margaret

Try this. On machine A, install Quicken on the USB drive. Take the USB drive to Machine B and again install Quicken on the USB drive. Now both machines should think they have Quicken installed on the USB drive and neither will be concerned about it.

Be careful about accessing your data from a USB drive. It is very easy to corrupt a drive by pulling it out without closing it etc. -- especially on previous versions of windows like 2000. You always need to make sure you have a backup. I carry my data between several computers on a USB drive, but I always copy it to the hard drive before running the program, also from the hard drive.

Doug

Mike B wrote:

I'm running WinXP, which is a bit better at letting you know if data is still waiting to be written to a USB drive. But ... for a while I carried my data between two machines (Quicken was installed on the machines, not the USB drive.). It worked great, but I did make sure I had a backup, just in case. On a few occasions I had to reformat the USB drive, but then all was well again. In short, it worked great for me. Interestingly, the latest issue of PC Magazine has an article on how to run programs (and even OSes) from USB drives, and it also talks about the newer drives that offer encryption and "thumb print" access. Of course, the OSes it mentions are Windows CE and a tiny Linux. And the applications it talks of loading/installing are not Quicken. But do give it a look, might give you some ideas.

Regards,

Margaret