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Posted by Laura on January 13, 2008, 4:00 pm
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>>>>> Since Intuit has forced an upgrade from QB Premier 2005 to QB Premier
>>>>> 2008
>>>>> ...
>>>>> support for 2005 ends in March and their greed induced decision to not
>>>>> make
>>>>> 2002 - 2006 Windows non-compliant, I now have a Vista machine but the
>>>>> QB
>>>>> 2005 is on an XP machine with a non-functioning CD/DVD.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since the free customer support isn't available on weekends, I thought
>>>>> I'd
>>>>> pose
>>>>> my question here.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can I copy the 2008 installation CD to a USB memory stick (one gb) and
>>>>> install
>>>>> QB 2008 on the XP machine? There is sufficient HD space and memory on
>>>>> the
>>>>> XP machine. There will be a separate memory stick with a 2005 backup.
>>>>>
>>>> I've never heard of installing softward copied to a USB drive. It sure
>>>> as
>>>> heck *might* work (and no loss if it doesn't) -- but I suspect a
>>>> Windows
>>>> XP
>>>> group would be able to help you with that.
>>>>
>>>> Why not just install QB 2008 on the Vista machine?
>>>
>>> I've already installed it on the Vista machine, but I need to install it
>>> on the XP machine so
>>> I can convert the existing company file to 2008 format w/o losing the
>>> 2005
>>> QB setup.
>>>
>>> More after laundry and lunch today.
>>
>> Why not just convert the qb05 file to qb08 format on the Vista machine?
>> When
>> you open the file on the vista machine QB will automatically convert it.
>> Make a backup copy so that you can keep the file in the old QB05 format.
>
> Actually I plan to do both as a CYA approach.
Just remember that once you conver the file to the 2008 format you can NOT
open it using 2005. You can have both programs installed on your machine at
the same time. Just specify the year version in the path name when you do
the installation.
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