Quicken 2005 Premier and Vista Ultimate Problems

Posted by David A. Lessnau on January 6, 2007, 9:43 am

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I'm running Quicken 2005 Premier under Vista Ultimate RTM. I might be
jumping the gun on this since Vista's not yet widely available. But, since
Intuit released a "Using Quicken on Microsoft Windows Vista" Help Bulletin
(just search for Vista in their Support area), I'd thought I'd pass on my
experiences.

Firstly, in that bulletin, Intuit claims Quicken 2007 runs fine with their
latest patches (R2 -- they probably wrote the bulleting before OR came out)
under Vista. I have no knowledge of that version. However, they also claim
Quicken 2005 and 2006 only have problems with accessing the Help files
(scripting errors -- no fix) and with updating the Quicken version (need to
run the manually downloaded patch as Administrator). With my Quicken 2005
Premier, which I manually updated from the initial install to OR while NOT
an Administrator (without problem), my Help system seems to works fine.
Where I do have a problem is with One-Step Updates (not program updates --
just downloading information from my financial institutions). One-Step
Update works correctly. But, when I exit Quicken, it faults (usually --
I've had one or two cases where it didn't) and warns me that my transactions
might not have been saved. AFAIK, all my transactions have always survived
this. But, it's worrisome.

Secondly, I've got a problem with the scroll wheel on my Microsoft Wireless
Laser Mouse 6000 (part of Microsoft's Laser Desktop 6000). Regardless of
whether I scroll up or down in a register or anywhere else in Quicken, the
window always scrolls up. I have to use the scroll bars on the side of the
window to scroll down. Of course, this could be a problem with the mouse,
the mouse software, or with Vista. But, since I see this behavior only in
Quicken, I don't think so.

Other than that, Quicken 2005 seems to work fine under Vista Ultimate RTM.
I just wish Intuit would acknowledge the issues I have (and which Vista has
passed on to Microsoft and, I assume, Intuit). I worry about my data
integrity because of those error messages. But, so far, things look fine.

Posted by DP on January 6, 2007, 11:28 am

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David:
Just as a cautionary note, I thought I'd pass on to you a problem I had
using Quicken under Vista and XPx64. I posted to this group back in
November, but no one else reported having the same problems. Here's what I
ran into:

I've got Windows XPx64 and Vista (RC1 Build 5600) dual booting. I
reinstalled Quicken (06, Basic) on the Vista partition. I already had it
working fine on x64. As best I could tell, Quicken was working fine on both
OSes at first. I could open and save in x64 and then open in Vista and all
the stuff I had updated while in x64 is updated in Vista. And vice versa.

Now, however, Vista seems to be stuck on an old version -- for want of a
better term -- of the Quicken date file, missing recent transactions, etc. I
even tried opening the Quicken file while in Vista by double-clicking on the
file that I know is the working Quicken file and had just been updated while
under x64. But it still brings up the old file (without the recent
transactions). And when I closed out Quicken in Vista, that file remained
unchanged (the date of the last revision remained the same). And yes, I did
refresh the folder view to make sure.

Recently, I tried changing the password to the data file while using Quicken
in x64. But when I tried to open the very same data file in Vista/Quicken,
it made me give it the old password.

Keep in mind this is the SAME data file. I know where it's stored, and while
in Vista go searching for the file first. I can tell from the date on the
file that this is the one I'd just updated while in XPx64. Then I
double-click the file and it opens in Quicken, but it has OLD data.

I haven't tried Quicken in Vista since late November because I haven't had
time to try to fix the error. Just wanted to let you know I had a problem
back then and I'm not sure whether other people will face the same thing. So
far, no one else has reported it AFAIK.

Meanwhile thanks for the mention of the support file. I'll go looking for
it.

Posted by formerprof on January 6, 2007, 1:18 pm

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I've just had the same problem using Vista 32; I synchronize my quicken
files between my XP laptop and my Vista desktop machines, so when the
problem of missing transactions came up I thought that I might have
overwirtten the more current file with the older version. About four days
transactions were missing. But I've checked the file dates and the dates of
othr synchronized but non-Quicken files and it appears that I didn't make
that error. I'm using Q2007, R3 on both machines.

The sychronization is via a batch file (which I've been using for many years
without difficulty) which uses XCOPY to overwrite the older files only when
the replacement file is newer.

I hope this isn't going to occur again. The transactions all came back when
I did an on-line update. I then "validated the wholse file and found no
further errors.

formerprof

> David:

> Just as a cautionary note, I thought I'd pass on to you a problem I had

> using Quicken under Vista and XPx64. I posted to this group back in

> November, but no one else reported having the same problems. Here's what I

> ran into:

> I've got Windows XPx64 and Vista (RC1 Build 5600) dual booting. I

> reinstalled Quicken (06, Basic) on the Vista partition. I already had it

> working fine on x64. As best I could tell, Quicken was working fine on

> both OSes at first. I could open and save in x64 and then open in Vista

430 No such article
I've just had the same problem using Vista 32; I synchronize my quicken
files between my XP laptop and my Vista desktop machines, so when the
problem of missing transactions came up I thought that I might have
overwirtten the more current file with the older version. About four days
transactions were missing. But I've checked the file dates and the dates of
othr synchronized but non-Quicken files and it appears that I didn't make
that error. I'm using Q2007, R3 on both machines.

The sychronization is via a batch file (which I've been using for many years
without difficulty) which uses XCOPY to overwrite the older files only when
the replacement file is newer.

I hope this isn't going to occur again. The transactions all came back when
I did an on-line update. I then "validated the wholse file and found no
further errors.

formerprof

> David:

> Just as a cautionary note, I thought I'd pass on to you a problem I had

> using Quicken under Vista and XPx64. I posted to this group back in

> November, but no one else reported having the same problems. Here's what I

> ran into:

> I've got Windows XPx64 and Vista (RC1 Build 5600) dual booting. I

> reinstalled Quicken (06, Basic) on the Vista partition. I already had it

> working fine on x64. As best I could tell, Quicken was working fine on

> both OSes at first. I could open and save in x64 and then open in Vista

> and all the stuff I had updated while in x64 is updated in Vista. And vice

> versa.

> Now, however, Vista seems to be stuck on an old version -- for want of a

> better term -- of the Quicken date file, missing recent transactions, etc.

> I even tried opening the Quicken file while in Vista by double-clicking on

> the file that I know is the working Quicken file and had just been updated

> while under x64. But it still brings up the old file (without the recent

> transactions). And when I closed out Quicken in Vista, that file remained

> unchanged (the date of the last revision remained the same). And yes, I

> did refresh the folder view to make sure.

> Recently, I tried changing the password to the data file while using

> Quicken in x64. But when I tried to open the very same data file in

> Vista/Quicken, it made me give it the old password.

> Keep in mind this is the SAME data file. I know where it's stored, and

> while in Vista go searching for the file first. I can tell from the date

> on the file that this is the one I'd just updated while in XPx64. Then I

> double-click the file and it opens in Quicken, but it has OLD data.

> I haven't tried Quicken in Vista since late November because I haven't had

> time to try to fix the error. Just wanted to let you know I had a problem

> back then and I'm not sure whether other people will face the same thing.

> So far, no one else has reported it AFAIK.

> Meanwhile thanks for the mention of the support file. I'll go looking for

> it.

Posted by DP on January 6, 2007, 7:37 pm

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Interesting. Seems like there might be a problem Intuit and MS should be
looking into.

> I've just had the same problem using Vista 32; I synchronize my quicken

> files between my XP laptop and my Vista desktop machines, so when the

> problem of missing transactions came up I thought that I might have

> overwirtten the more current file with the older version. About four days

> transactions were missing. But I've checked the file dates and the dates

> of othr synchronized but non-Quicken files and it appears that I didn't

> make that error. I'm using Q2007, R3 on both machines.

> The sychronization is via a batch file (which I've been using for many

> years without difficulty) which uses XCOPY to overwrite the older files

> only when the replacement file is newer.

> I hope this isn't going to occur again. The transactions all came back

> when I did an on-line update. I then "validated the wholse file and found

> no further errors.

> formerprof

>> David:

>> Just as a cautionary note, I thought I'd pass on to you a problem I had

>> using Quicken under Vista and XPx64. I posted to this group back in

>> November, but no one else reported having the same problems. Here's what

>> I ran into:

>> I've got Windows XPx64 and Vista (RC1 Build 5600) dual booting. I

>> reinstalled Quicken (06, Basic) on the Vista partition. I already had it

>> working fine on x64. As best I could tell, Quicken was working fine on

>> both OSes at first. I could open and save in x64 and then open in Vista

>> and all the stuff I had updated while in x64 is updated in Vista. And

>> vice versa.

>> Now, however, Vista seems to be stuck on an old version -- for want of a

>> better term -- of the Quicken date file, missing recent transactions,

>> etc. I even tried opening the Quicken file while in Vista by

>> double-clicking on the file that I know is the working Quicken file and

>> had just been updated while under x64. But it still brings up the old

>> file (without the recent transactions). And when I closed out Quicken in

>> Vista, that file remained unchanged (the date of the last revision

>> remained the same). And yes, I did refresh the folder view to make sure.