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Posted by The Streets on February 13, 2007, 6:43 pm
Please log in for more thread options Finally got Rel 4 installed ...
I disabled Norton Auto-protect and shut down the
resident portions of both Spybot S&D and WinPatrol.
Sorry that I wasn't more methodical in my approach
so I can't say which item or combination of items
was the key.
> RC,
>
> Thank you for your suggestions.
>
> I don't mean to be dense here, but I must be missing something ...
>
> When I right-click on qwpatch.exe or cmd.exe, I get the option
> "Run as ...". Selecting this I get a box with (2) choices: "Current
> user" (which is me) or "The following user" where the only choice
> is me. There is no choice named "Administrator". Again, I'm the
> only account on this machine -- I don't even have any Guest accounts
> ("Guest account is off"). My one account is the "Computer administrator"
> and I've used this account to install all my software, including Quicken
> 2006, Quicken 2007 and all their updates -- at least up until now.
>
> With my account structure so trivial, I've got to think that there is
> something else happening that I don't grasp.
>
>> Hi, Streets.
>>
>>> But, I only use one account on my Windows XP machine and
>>> it is set up as the administrator.
>>
>> Me, too. Except that I've now migrated to Vista Ultimate x64. The rules
>> are different, but similar.
>>
>>> So there shouldn't be any issue
>>> with administrator authority. And, I've never had any problems
>>> in the past.
>>
>> Me, too. Never had these problems in WinXP. But re-read John's advice:
>>
>>>> Use the "Run as" option to
>>>> run as *the* administrator
>>
>> There is a difference between "an" administrator and "the" administrator.
>> The distinction is even stronger in Vista, which I am running now, than
>> in WinXP, but the distinction is there in WinXP, too.
>>
>> There are at least 2 ways to run qwpatch.exe as "the" administrator.
>>
>> 1. Navigate to the file in Windows Explorer and right-click on
>> qwpatch.exe, then click "Run as Administrator".
>>
>> 2. Open a Command Prompt window as Administrator (right-click on Cmd.exe
>> or the Command Prompt icon, then click Run as Administrator). Any
>> program run from this window will run "elevated". So run qwpatch.exe
>> from here.
>>
>> The qwpatch.exe file may not be where you expect to find it on your hard
>> drive. I'm not sure where WinXP puts the file, but in my Vista, it was
>> at:
>> C:ProgramDataIntuitQuickenInetCommonpatchUpdateqwpatch.exe
>>
>> Note that you run qwpatch.exe. This will find the QW07R4Patch.exe file
>> and install it.
>>
>> Please try this and let us know if it works - or if it doesn't work.
>> Other readers will want to know, either way.
>>
>> RC
>> --
>> R. C. White, CPA
>> San Marcos, TX
>> (Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
>> rc@grandecom.net
>> Microsoft Windows MVP
>> (Currently running Vista Ultimate x64)
>>
>>>> The Streets wrote:
>>>>> Still having trouble. Tried the CTRL trick but it
>>>>> doesn't seem to work with Q2007 -- Quicken opens without
>>>>> a data file but the tool bar only has the File and Help menus
>>>>> so no (obvious)
>>>>> way to initiate the update. Next I downloaded and ran the
>>>>> manual update (without Quicken running). Got the same
>>>>> error result as before: seems to be updating; status bar
>>>>> crawls all
>>>>> the way to the right; then a pause; and then a screen
>>>>> with the message "The update for Quicken 2007 was not
>>>>> completed."
>>>>
>>>> Did you try what R.C.'s approach. Use the "Run as" option to
>>>> run as *the* administrator (when you run the manual update, in
>>>> your case ... thought you can also try running qwpatch.exe that
>>>> way)?
>>>
>>> I'll go back and check R.C.'s message to be sure that I understand
>>> it. But, I only use one account on my Windows XP machine and
>>> it is set up as the administrator. So there shouldn't be any issue
>>> with administrator authority. And, I've never had any problems
>>> in the past.
>>
>
>
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