Speeding up Quicken Deluxe

Usually, I get the opportunity to "Accept All". I then review things for any editing required.

Regards, Hank Arnold

Jeff wrote:

I do that too, but "Accept All" does not accept the transactions that sell shares which then have to be accepted individually, one at a time.

Jeff

Really?? Wow! Sounds like you need to talk to the brokerage about their downloads...

Regards, Hank Arnold

Jeff wrote:

"Hank Arnold" wrote

I'm pretty sure that is a Quicken feature; Quicken does not assume which lots you want to sell, but requires you to tell it. There is no way around it, but I have never found it burdensome; it's still far less work than entering a Sell transaction from scratch.

That depends - how much RAM do you have, and is it maxed out? Are you fully utilizing your CPU?

For example, I'm running WinXP with an AMD Athlon 1.33GHz (Thunderbird) and 768MB RAM. Task Manager shows I have 302MB of physical memory available out of that 768MB total. qw.exe is showing as using 38MB of RAM and 28MB of virtual memory.

Adding more RAM wouldn't speed Quicken up for me at all, because I still have close to 50% of my physical RAM free - if Quicken needs more RAM, it's there for the taking. Doubling my RAM would just mean that 75% of it would be free instead of 50% free.

However, during certain actions in Quicken (accepting downloaded transactions), I can see in Task Manager that my CPU is pegged at 100% usage, and most of that is being used by qw.exe. So increasing my processor speed might improve Quicken's performance during those actions.

Thanks. That makes sense. I'll check it out.

I have the Quicken data files within a Cryptainer (encrypts them on the fly) volume too which probably does not help if it is the CPU that is maxed out.

Jeff

Sorry to ask a stupid question, but how exactly does one figure out that. Is there a built in utility that shows this or allows you to determine it?

Thanks.

Jeff

If you're using an NT-based Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista) you can use Task Manager. Right-click your taskbar and select Task Manager, or hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and select "Task List"

Thanks. Found it.

Jeff

Depends on how Quicken and Cryptainer has things implemented. I didn't notice much of a performance hit when I put my Q data into a TrueCrypt volume. If Quicken doesn't write to disk immediately after a data change, the CPU being maxed out may not be a factor.