Zipingo Links Annoyingly Persistent

It's been well hashed-out on this ng how one can hide the Zipingo links in Quicken. In the last couple of days, though, I've noticed a persistent "Rate Payee" link at the very bottom of the screen that doesn't appear to respect the checkboxes that supposedly hide these links.

As if the Zipingo integration into Quicken wasn't annoying and intrusive enough, Quicken appears to be enforcing a "thou shalt not hide thy Zipingo links" policy. Why even provide the ability to hide the links if the software isn't going to respect my wishes anyway?

  1. Has anyone else seen this?
  2. Is there a checkbox/registry setting somewhere I don't know about that hides this persistent link?

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Reply to
Fritz
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Here's what I've done to control this good but shamelessly self-spamming app:

Find the folder "X:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Intuit\Quicken\Inet\Common\Pnf\Quicken" and rename it to something else (e.g., "X:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Intuit\Quicken\Inet\Common\Pnf\xxx-Quicken").

That works fine here using Q2005 Premier H & B with no loss of function that I can see. It also gets rid of all the other spam that lurks in that section of the window.

I also renamed the folder "X:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Intuit\Quicken\Inet\Common\Alerts" since I've never seen any alerts in Quicken that meant anything worthwhile anyway. (That rename does NOT affect the scheduled payment alerts, only the useless investment alerts.)

YMMV HTH

Reply to
charles

You rock like Styx. If we ever meet, I owe you a beer.

Thank you very much!

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Reply to
Fritz

Excellent tip!

Reply to
mxh

I tried your fix and it worked great until I tried to backup my data files. All of a sudden Windows installer popped up and started like it was installing something. It then asked me for the Quicken 2006 CD. I canceled the operation and exited quicken. When I tried to restart Quicken I got a message that the program was corrupted and I needed to reinstall the program. Fortunately I have GoBack on my system so I went back and again Quicken worked fine until I tried to back up. I used GoBack a second time and undid your fix (named the directory back to Quicken). Everything works fine now. Apparently renaming that directory caused the problem.

It was a nice try but it didn't work. Thanks for trying.

Reply to
Steve Blake

Same experience here - had to re-install!!

Reply to
JM

Sort of a similar experience (my backups worked okay however). Mine is Q2006 Dlx - R4 on W98se. I renamed the two folders in the first place to see what would happen and everything including backup seemed okay.

When I renamed the folders back, again to see what would happen, Q would never get off the ground. The little pop-up would appear and the opening sound would play but the rest of it would never load. A Ctrl-Alt-Delete would show qw.exe not responding.

I didn't have to re-load. I found that the Alerts folder had to stay but the Pnf folder could be renamed. At least in my configuration. I may re-load someday just to get Pnf (whatever it is) restored in case I do something down the road that wants it. Geo.

Reply to
GSalisbury

Sorry to hear you had a problem but glad to hear you recovered.

I've used Quicken since 1992 (on a Macintosh). That's how far my check registry goes back to anyway. I have never used Quicken's internal backup function. I use my own homegrown tools to back things up and, having had to recover from catastrophes a few times over the years, I know that they work for me.

I'd guess that Quicken's internal backup routine is using the directory list that the MS installer maintains as a way to walk through the directories that need backing up. They are all maintained in the registry at -

LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Folders

When it couldn't find something it thought it knew was there it freaked out and called the installer from scratch.

Actually, I discovered the existence of those directory values in the registry after running a registry cleanup and deleted them since I have no plan to uninstall Quicken from this machine. Hearing your experience, I'd guess that if I had changed the values in the registry to their renamed values, Quicken's backup would have blithely gone about its way and backed up the renamed directories without complaint. And I guess that having deleted them altogether it would not complain either.

Maybe one day I'll try the internal backup function and maybe reinsert the renamed values in the registry and see what happens. Of course, I'd do all that _after_ doing a complete backup on my own.

Anyway, good to hear you didn't get hurt. I always try to think real hard about doing anything unless I know I can get back to status quo ante.

Reply to
charles

Or navigate to that folder, edit all the .dat files, and remove everything after the [DisplayData] section. Actually look for most .dat files under the quicken folders, and if they contain that section, blank it. Can also be done for some [DetailData] in some .htm files.

Could be easily scripted.

-- HASM

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HASM

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