Speed Up QuickBooks

Posted by ChessmanEd on March 18, 2009, 2:19 pm

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Our church treasurer uses QuickBooks. Says it's slow, slow, slow. Any
suggestions?

She runs it on an XP machine running SP-2 with 512 MB of memory. I assume
she keeps it updated but not certain. I have already done lots of
housekeeping on XP (stopped some background programs from starting during
boot-up, increased virtual memory, etc).

I'm look for specific changes to QuickBooks that might make it run faster.
Believe printing is one slow area.

OldEd

Posted by Haskel LaPort on March 18, 2009, 2:28 pm

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> Our church treasurer uses QuickBooks. Says it's slow, slow, slow. Any

> suggestions?

> She runs it on an XP machine running SP-2 with 512 MB of memory. I assume

> she keeps it updated but not certain. I have already done lots of

> housekeeping on XP (stopped some background programs from starting during

> boot-up, increased virtual memory, etc).

> I'm look for specific changes to QuickBooks that might make it run faster.

> Believe printing is one slow area.

> OldEd

Running on an XP machine is like driving in a four wheeled automobile. One
has no idea how fast either is capable of going without more information.

Posted by dpb on March 18, 2009, 2:54 pm

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Haskel LaPort wrote:

>> Our church treasurer uses QuickBooks. Says it's slow, slow, slow. Any

>> suggestions?

...

>> I'm look for specific changes to QuickBooks that might make it run

>> faster. Believe printing is one slow area.

...

> Running on an XP machine is like driving in a four wheeled automobile.

> One has no idea how fast either is capable of going without more

> information.

...

I'd guess size of the database and the amount/type of printing/printer
would be key here. Any machine of modern-enough vintage to have shipped
w/ XP is likely to not be the issue itself assuming, of course, it's not
infected w/ some form of worm/virus/other malware.

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Posted by ChessmanEd on March 19, 2009, 10:51 am

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Thanks,
What file(s) do I look for to determine db size? How does one shrink it?
Does QB have any db utilities? As noted in my original message, I'm not the
user!!!
Ed

> Haskel LaPort wrote:

>>> Our church treasurer uses QuickBooks. Says it's slow, slow, slow. Any

>>> suggestions?

> ...

>>> I'm look for specific changes to QuickBooks that might make it run

>>> faster. Believe printing is one slow area.

>>>

> ...

>> Running on an XP machine is like driving in a four wheeled automobile.

>> One has no idea how fast either is capable of going without more

>> information.

> ...

> I'd guess size of the database and the amount/type of printing/printer

> would be key here. Any machine of modern-enough vintage to have shipped

> w/ XP is likely to not be the issue itself assuming, of course, it's not

> infected w/ some form of worm/virus/other malware.

> --

Posted by dpb on March 19, 2009, 11:01 am

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ChessmanEd wrote:

> Thanks,

> What file(s) do I look for to determine db size? How does one shrink it?

> Does QB have any db utilities? As noted in my original message, I'm not

> the user!!!

...
I really didn't note the memory consciously before...w/ XP 512MB isn't
that much and the other posters' suggestions are probably valid. I
suppose it's also possible (probable?) the machine was bottom-dollar
given the organization in an attempt to economize.

But, the database is a file w/ company name w/ .qb extension to see just
how large it is.

There's a section in the online help on condensing the database -- read
the limitations/what happens before just doing so. The memory issue may
be the better route.

What, other than printing, is slow?

Might be able to help the printing issue by printing to a file then
dumping the file to the printer rather than printing directly from QB as
well.

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