Windows & Quicken

This is 2 thousand and EFFING SEVEN, for SAKE. Time for her to get VISTA.

Wonder what the CPU is on that Win98 machine ? We have a Win98se desktop machine we use for very basic stuff, and the rest are XP laptops in the house. We HAD to move our Quicken 2004 to our laptop because of the lack of horsepower on the Win98se (233Mhz).

Was there such an animal as Win98ME?

I only remember Win98, Win98 SE, and then Win ME.

Bob

Exactly, but she has a 450 MHz CPU. It works fine, she understands it and it is solid as a rock. Moving to Vista is a disaster in the making. I doubt that it will run on her machine so we'll have to spend some $$$ on a new machine, a bigger hard disk, probably more memory and the copy of Vista. And then we will cope with Vista slowness.

yup - I'm typing now on the Dell 233 from 1997 - and it works fine EXCEPT for those programs that are HUGE with lots of eye candy or require some function that is not implemented on Win98se... Running Office 98 - and Eudora email, and IE 6.0 (that was forced by either Quicken or Turbotax) What more do you need :)

I remember when I was a boy. I had a bicycle that was rock solid too. Wouldn't have used it to go from the East coast to the West coast though...

From what I hear Vista is not all that slow. Yeah sure you can turn on all the eye candy etc and slow things down - especially if you don't have a good graphics yet insist on asking Vista to do fancy graphics. Of course, you also can turn off of that off too. I've heard that Vista is actually faster than XP - pound for pound that is.

Of course for many people change is difficult...