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Posted by Matt on July 30, 2009, 7:29 pm

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I have been using quicken for 20 years, starting with the DOS version.
Over the years, and with numerous upgrades, I have noticed that the
program has become progressively slower. I create a new data file
every year, but of course my financial data is not purged.

When I "upgraded" to R6, I noticed a marked slowdown, much greater
than I'd ever seen. Every time an entry is accepted from a download
there is a delay, which it seems can take up to 5 or 10 seconds. There
can be up to 100 new entries in a download, including bank and
investment accounts, which eats up a large chunk of my time.

My PC is dual core AMD running XP Pro at 2.21 Ghz, with 2 GB RAM.

OK, so maybe it is my hardware. I just bought a new PC: Vista 64 on a
3.07 GHz CPU with 12 GB RAM. It's STILL slow. It seems like it's
rewriting the entire database each time an entry is accepted.

Does anyone know what changed in R6 to create this issue? Is there
any talk of a fix? R7?

Posted by John Pollard on July 30, 2009, 8:21 pm

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Matt wrote:

> I have been using quicken for 20 years, starting with the DOS version.

> Over the years, and with numerous upgrades, I have noticed that the

> program has become progressively slower. I create a new data file

> every year, but of course my financial data is not purged.

> When I "upgraded" to R6, I noticed a marked slowdown, much greater

> than I'd ever seen. Every time an entry is accepted from a download

> there is a delay, which it seems can take up to 5 or 10 seconds. There

> can be up to 100 new entries in a download, including bank and

> investment accounts, which eats up a large chunk of my time.

> My PC is dual core AMD running XP Pro at 2.21 Ghz, with 2 GB RAM.

> OK, so maybe it is my hardware. I just bought a new PC: Vista 64 on a

> 3.07 GHz CPU with 12 GB RAM. It's STILL slow. It seems like it's

> rewriting the entire database each time an entry is accepted.

> Does anyone know what changed in R6 to create this issue? Is there

> any talk of a fix? R7?

Do you have the "Live Community" opening when Quicken starts? If so, try
turning that option off, and restarting Quicken.

[Edit > Preferences > Quicken Program > Startup ---- uncheck the box "Open
Live Community ....".]

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John Pollard

Posted by Matt on July 31, 2009, 1:07 am

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I turned off Live Community a couple of weeks ago. BTW, it was
interesting that a number of people had similar complaints about R6,
but those posts seem to have stopped appearing now.

Matt

wrote:

>Matt wrote:

>> I have been using quicken for 20 years, starting with the DOS version.

>> Over the years, and with numerous upgrades, I have noticed that the

>> program has become progressively slower. I create a new data file

>> every year, but of course my financial data is not purged.

>> When I "upgraded" to R6, I noticed a marked slowdown, much greater

>> than I'd ever seen. Every time an entry is accepted from a download

>> there is a delay, which it seems can take up to 5 or 10 seconds. There

>> can be up to 100 new entries in a download, including bank and

>> investment accounts, which eats up a large chunk of my time.

>> My PC is dual core AMD running XP Pro at 2.21 Ghz, with 2 GB RAM.

>> OK, so maybe it is my hardware. I just bought a new PC: Vista 64 on a

>> 3.07 GHz CPU with 12 GB RAM. It's STILL slow. It seems like it's

>> rewriting the entire database each time an entry is accepted.

>> Does anyone know what changed in R6 to create this issue? Is there

>> any talk of a fix? R7?

>Do you have the "Live Community" opening when Quicken starts? If so, try

>turning that option off, and restarting Quicken.

>[Edit > Preferences > Quicken Program > Startup ---- uncheck the box "Open

>Live Community ....".]

Posted by Jeff on July 31, 2009, 7:31 am

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On Jul 31, 1:07=A0am, Matt <Mattdotkalmanatgmail> wrote:

> I turned off Live Community a couple of weeks ago. =A0BTW, =A0it was

> interesting that a number of people had similar complaints about R6,

> but those posts seem to have stopped appearing now.

> Matt

> wrote:

> >Matt wrote:

> >> I have been using quicken for 20 years, starting with the DOS version.

> >> Over the years, and with numerous upgrades, I have noticed that the

> >> program has become progressively slower. =A0I create a new data file

> >> every year, but of course my financial data is not purged.

> >> When I "upgraded" to R6, I noticed a marked slowdown, much greater

> >> than I'd ever seen. =A0Every time an entry is accepted from a download

> >> there is a delay, which it seems can take up to 5 or 10 seconds. There

> >> can be up to 100 new entries in a download, including bank and

> >> investment accounts, which eats up a large chunk of my time.

> >> My PC is dual core AMD running XP Pro at 2.21 Ghz, with 2 GB RAM.

> >> OK, so maybe it is my hardware. =A0I just bought a new PC: Vista 64 on=

> >> 3.07 GHz CPU with 12 GB RAM. =A0It's STILL slow. =A0It seems like it's

> >> rewriting the entire database each time an entry is accepted.

> >> Does anyone know what changed in R6 to create this issue? =A0Is there

> >> any talk of a fix? =A0R7?

> >Do you have the "Live Community" opening when Quicken starts? =A0If so, =

try

> >turning that option off, and restarting Quicken.

> >[Edit > Preferences > Quicken Program > Startup ---- uncheck the box "Op=

> >Live Community ....".]- Hide quoted text -

> - Show quoted text -

I have a similar problem and it is not tied to R6 or "Live
Community". The only solution I've found is to periodically run a
validate on my file. After validate it will speed up considerably for
a while and then eventually slow to a crawl again. Wish I could find
a solution to this one.

Posted by Bob Wang on July 31, 2009, 5:10 pm

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Matt:

I'm also experiencing the slow down on a quad-core 2.4 GHz 8GB Vista
Ultimate 64 with Release 6.
I can live with it for now, hopefully Intuit will tweak it in the next
release.

Bob

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"Matt" <mattatkalmandotnet> wrote in message
I have been using quicken for 20 years, starting with the DOS version.
Over the years, and with numerous upgrades, I have noticed that the
program has become progressively slower. I create a new data file
every year, but of course my financial data is not purged.

When I "upgraded" to R6, I noticed a marked slowdown, much greater
than I'd ever seen. Every time an entry is accepted from a download
there is a delay, which it seems can take up to 5 or 10 seconds. There
can be up to 100 new entries in a download, including bank and
investment accounts, which eats up a large chunk of my time.

My PC is dual core AMD running XP Pro at 2.21 Ghz, with 2 GB RAM.

OK, so maybe it is my hardware. I just bought a new PC: Vista 64 on a
3.07 GHz CPU with 12 GB RAM. It's STILL slow. It seems like it's
rewriting the entire database each time an entry is accepted.

Does anyone know what changed in R6 to create this issue? Is there
any talk of a fix? R7?