Updating H&B 2008 to H&B 2009

jo: There used to be an annoying bug where a new report was created when I modified an existing report. I used to toggle between "Customize creates new" and "Customize modifies" to have Quicken ONLY modify. I can't recall having to do that in months, so that quirk must have been corrected in Q2009, or one of the updates. This may not be the same bug you are experiencing. Bob

I refrained from answering because although I have Q2009 RPM, I only use it for testing.

Even though sometime around Q2006, Quicken started defaulting to deleting older versions when newer versions were installed, there has always been a way to prevent that: hold down CTRL+SHIFT when clicking on the first clickable button you get during install.

Up until Q2009, having two versions installed produced only relatively minor glitches.

Having Q2009 installed with any other versions creates more significant glitches, including actually changing the version level (ie: Home & Business could get changed to Deluxe); and interferring with features that utilized the internet. The most recently installed version would be "relatively" unphased, the other version could be severely hampered.

Quite a few experienced users posted here when Q2009 came out, saying they didn't find any serious flaws. Some users did find such flaws, though to the best of my knowledge and recollection, none were "reproduceable", leaving open the question of the cause of the problems.

There have been 6 releases to Q2009 so far, and one more is known to be on the way soon ... before the end of the month, it is suggested by Intuit. So certainly some problems in Q2009 have already been addressed; and although I believe the main purpose of R7 will be to incorporate the new Money Converter directly into Q2009, I am unusually hopeful that a couple more problems will be fixed when R7 is installed.

I would also expect some users to run into problems if they use Vista or Windows 7 ... not necessarily due to any bugs in Quicken or the os, but because Vista and Windows 7 are different from, and stricter in granting access than, Windows XP. And the fact that, I believe, there are still some devices that do not have bug-free Vista/Windows 7 drivers.

I can't tell you whether there were any improvements to this problem in Q2009, but it is not totally solved: you can still see the problem, if you Save to user created folders. You can avoid the problem by not saving reports to any user created report folders [always Save to "None (My Saved Reports)".]

I only had Q2008 and Q2009 on the same machine for a very short time, and it was a long time ago, so I don't recall the specifics. But yes, you can lose functionality (Premier could become Basic, for example). The loss is temporary; it lasts until you reinstall the version that lost functionality (and it may not happen every time). It's a sort of catch-22 situation, and it's the last version installed that gets the better treatment (though I believe that with two versions installed, there will always be some glitches).

I wouldn't hesitate to try it out, I don't think you have anything to lose; though I confess, all my multiple installs have occured on a machine I only use for testing.