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Posted by David A. Lessnau on August 31, 2007, 11:21 am
Please log in for more thread options Well, I think I see a benefit to the sidebar gadget. Billminder only pops
up when you boot the machine (or log in). It looks like the gadget updates
itself periodically. So, if you're one of the people who leave their
machines running all the time, you can see that something's changed and
either run Billminder or Quicken, itself, to do what needs doing.
Dave
>I downloaded and installed Quicken 2008 Deluxe on Vista Ultimate (32-bit)
>and my sidebar gadget seems to be working fine. Where are your data files
>located (mine are under a folder I created in the Documents folder)? Maybe
>there are permission problems.
>
> I'm not too sure that the gadget is really worth anything, though. On the
> "List" tab, all it seems to do is say a certain number of transactions are
> coming up, overdue, ready to print or send. The "Calendar" tab is
> worthless since I already have the default (better looking) Vista calendar
> gadget running and all the Quicken version does is add some color for days
> when things are happening. You have to click the "Go to Billminder"
> button on the bottom of the gadget to see what's actually happening. I'll
> give it a while and see if it grows on me. But, right now, I'd say I'll
> be turning it off in the near future.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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>> Thanks... Sounded good, but had no effect. I also tried removing the
>> file-password from Quicken, thinking maybe that was preventing the 2 from
>> hooking-up, but no luck... Not a big deal, would like to use it if it
>> works which at some point, I'm sure it will...
>>
>>> I'm not sure if this is what you're referring to, but I got it from
>>> Intuit's support site and it looks reasonable:
>>>
>>> "Vista Quicken Gadget does not display future transactions
>>> Answer
>>>
>>> When the Quicken Gadget is first installed on Microsoft Windows Vista,
>>> it does not display upcoming transactions, even when a backed up Quicken
>>> file with those transactions is used.
>>>
>>> To see upcoming transactions on a newly installed Quicken Gadget:
>>>
>>> 1. Close Quicken.
>>> 2. Open the Quicken Gadget. Note: Quicken must be closed, and then
>>> reopened.
>>> 3. In the upper right of the Gadget, click the Refresh icon.
>>>
>>> Upcoming transactions now appear."
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> After installing the new version of Quicken, I now have the
>>>> Quicken-gadget on my sidebar. It doesn't show anything though, it's
>>>> there -- but doesn't appear to be 'connected' to my Quicken file.
>>>> Everything shows as '0', and clicking on 'Go to Billminder' does
>>>> nothing. There don't seem to be any options to set for it,
>>>> right-clicking doesn't show a settings function.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have it working?
>>>
>
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