I have been runnng Quicken 99 since time began and am finally thinking of 'upgrading' to Quicken 2008. However, my overview of the latest version indicates it has many more 'bells and whistles' than '99' and whether I either want, need or will benefit from these 'extras' remains to be seen. Before I make the 'leap' I would like to try '2008' but the installation program will not 'allow' two versions to co-exist. Is there any way round this?
Two Versions on Same Machine
Dec 24, 2007
9 Replies
It's probably better to follow Intuit recommendation and uninstall older version before (or during-?) Q2008 installation.Of course, backup your data sets prior to this. Should you decide to revert back, you only need to remove Quicken 2008 from your PC, and re-install your old version.
"Edward W. Thompson" wrote
I just went through exactly that conversion........but I had a new computer to make the transition easier (or different, at least). My advice: If you are happy with '99 (I was), do NOT go to 2008!! I would still be using '99 on the new machine except that it was OEM on the old machine and I had no disk. I ended up dropping back to '05 because the reports have been "screwed up" since '06.
Good luck!
IIRC, you will run into problems with the file conversion if you wait too many years between upgrades.
Yes.
But you should consider that Intuit has a good reason for pushing to have only one version installed at a time; there can be problems, though they are mostly small glitches. I have four Quicken versions installed on one pc.
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I agree.
Intuit has a plan for this situation; they have what they call "trial versions" of Quicken that they will "give" you so you can make the conversion is two steps. I think the intermediate "trial version" times out in 30 days, or some such.
[I had Q2002 and was happy with that, but I had no objection to moving to Q2005 which I am also happy with. Pretty soon, I expect I'll be moving to Q2008 and I think I'll be happy with that too (I've been testiing with it since it was released).]"Rick Blaine" wrote
I don't know about any automatic conversion 'cause I didn't (couldn't because of new computer) do it that way. Files "backed up" on the old machine with Q'99, restored just fine on the new machine with H&B '08.
Thanks John, I'll give it a try after I've backed up!
Warning.
I reinstalled my 2001 and now it keeps pestering me to register. But Quicken won't recognize registering such an old product. So the pestering will continue ad nausea.
I just experienced the "Quicken Executable has encountered a problem and needs to close" error while making a backup using Quicken Basic
2001. Well both the hd version and backup version got trashed and previous backup was hundreds of transactions old after spending 2 days of year end catchup. After not finding much useful info on the web I fell for the "new version will fix it line". Wrong. 2008 could not read the 2001 corrupted file. It tried but bombed, vanished, just quit without error. Repeatedly. So 2008 is going back for a refund.I upgraded from Quicken2 to 2001 in 2001 because of the y2k problems with scheduled transactions in Q2.
Warning to all about backups. Make backups daily. Use mulitple backup media and cycle through them. So much for my great opinion of Quicken being rock solid.
Thanks for 3 wasted days Quicken.
Follow up. quicken has a hack for disabling the registration annoyance. Instructions vary with version. See this page for info for most versions:
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23#mid There is a typo for the 2000 2001 2002 2003 It's the FINANCE menu, not ONLINE menu. hold left Shift & left CTRL and click on FINANCE menu, then ONE STEP UPDATE.
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