Quicken 2008 Deluxe Vista 64 bit - Couple of questions

Posted by Don on February 29, 2008, 6:18 am

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Hey gang,

I run Quicken 2008 Deluxe, on XP Pro 32 bit.
Last weekend, I installed Vista 64 bit Ultimate, on it's own hard drive, to
dual boot with XP Pro. Mainly to just play around with Vista 64 bit, but
finding I am liking it more and more. I am curious on couple of things.

1: Will Quicken 2008 run ok on Vista 64 bit? I have done some searching, it
appears perhaps the main problem would be getting it to print, may have to
print to pdf first. That is no biggie to me, as I don't do a lot of printing
from within Quicken. I do download my financial data from my bank's website
on a daily basis. Anyone running Quicken 2008 that is doing this, with no
issue on Vista 64 bit?

2: Should I decide to install Quicken on my Vista 64 bit install, I would
prefer to continue to run it on my XP Pro install as well, run in parallel
so to speak for a while. I could see myself eventually migrating to Vista as
my main OS, but want to give it time first.
Right now, Vista is on it's own hard drive, when I boot into Vista it see's
the Vista partition as drive C, and I have another partition on that drive
for data as well. My XP Pro install is on another hard drive, and of course
when I boot into XP Pro it sees it's partition as drive C, and the Vista
partition on the other drive changes to like drive L.
Could Quicken 2008, be successfully installed on Vista, and run in both
Vista and XP in this scenario, or would I run into major conflicts?

Thanks for any feedback here,

--
Don

Posted by speedlever on February 29, 2008, 6:38 am

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I've been running Vista/64 bit for a year. I also run Q08D/R6 and it
works fine. Can't answer your other questions.

> Hey gang,

> I run Quicken 2008 Deluxe, on XP Pro 32 bit.

> Last weekend, I installed Vista 64 bit Ultimate, on it's own hard

> drive, to dual boot with XP Pro. Mainly to just play around with Vista

> 64 bit, but finding I am liking it more and more. I am curious on

> couple of things.

> 1: Will Quicken 2008 run ok on Vista 64 bit? I have done some

> searching, it appears perhaps the main problem would be getting it to

> print, may have to print to pdf first. That is no biggie to me, as I

> don't do a lot of printing from within Quicken. I do download my

> financial data from my bank's website on a daily basis. Anyone running

> Quicken 2008 that is doing this, with no issue on Vista 64 bit?

Posted by Don on February 29, 2008, 8:19 am

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Thanks for the info!

--
Don

"speedlever" <speedlever.at.yahoodotcom> wrote in message

> I've been running Vista/64 bit for a year. I also run Q08D/R6 and it

> works fine. Can't answer your other questions.

>> Hey gang,

>> I run Quicken 2008 Deluxe, on XP Pro 32 bit.

>> Last weekend, I installed Vista 64 bit Ultimate, on it's own hard

>> drive, to dual boot with XP Pro. Mainly to just play around with Vista

>> 64 bit, but finding I am liking it more and more. I am curious on

>> couple of things.

>> 1: Will Quicken 2008 run ok on Vista 64 bit? I have done some

>> searching, it appears perhaps the main problem would be getting it to

>> print, may have to print to pdf first. That is no biggie to me, as I

>> don't do a lot of printing from within Quicken. I do download my

>> financial data from my bank's website on a daily basis. Anyone running

>> Quicken 2008 that is doing this, with no issue on Vista 64 bit?

Posted by David A. Lessnau on February 29, 2008, 8:12 am

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Quicken, itself, will run on Vista x64 without problem. The only problems
I'm having with it are with Billminder and its corresponding Gadget. Under
Vista x86, these semi-worked. But, under x64, they give nothing. See:

http://www.quickencommunity.com/webx/Forums/Quicken%20Personal%20Finance%20Software%20Forum%20for%20Windows/Product%20feedback%20and%20suggestions/469/23

If that link doesn't work (too long), go to the Quicken Community home page
(http://www.quickencommunity.com/index.html), go to the Quicken for Windows
forum, and then the Product Feedback and Suggestions sub-forum. It's my
thread entitled: "Quicken 2008: Billminder and Gadget Problems".

I've never printed anything to paper from Quicken, so I can't say anything
about that. But, I download my financial information from many places
online and have no problems.

Regarding your dual boot setup, I've never run anything like that. But, for
a while, I ran Quicken under an XP Virtual Machine while also running it
under Vista x86. I shared the folder that the Quicken data file was in so
that both instances of Quicken could see the data. They each saw the data
as being under a different drive letter but ran without problem. My guess
is that your situation should be fine.

Dave Lessnau

> Hey gang,

> I run Quicken 2008 Deluxe, on XP Pro 32 bit.

> Last weekend, I installed Vista 64 bit Ultimate, on it's own hard drive,

> to dual boot with XP Pro. Mainly to just play around with Vista 64 bit,

> but finding I am liking it more and more. I am curious on couple of

> things.

> 1: Will Quicken 2008 run ok on Vista 64 bit? I have done some searching,

> it appears perhaps the main problem would be getting it to print, may have

> to print to pdf first. That is no biggie to me, as I don't do a lot of

> printing from within Quicken. I do download my financial data from my

> bank's website on a daily basis. Anyone running Quicken 2008 that is doing

> this, with no issue on Vista 64 bit?

> 2: Should I decide to install Quicken on my Vista 64 bit install, I would

> prefer to continue to run it on my XP Pro install as well, run in parallel

> so to speak for a while. I could see myself eventually migrating to Vista

> as my main OS, but want to give it time first.

> Right now, Vista is on it's own hard drive, when I boot into Vista it

> see's the Vista partition as drive C, and I have another partition on that

> drive for data as well. My XP Pro install is on another hard drive, and of

> course when I boot into XP Pro it sees it's partition as drive C, and the

> Vista partition on the other drive changes to like drive L.

> Could Quicken 2008, be successfully installed on Vista, and run in both

> Vista and XP in this scenario, or would I run into major conflicts?

> Thanks for any feedback here,

> --

> Don

Posted by Don on February 29, 2008, 8:21 am

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I don't use billminder, so should not be an issue there. Glad to hear you
have no issues downloading your financial institution data.
I may wait to see if any more feeback from folks that have run two instances
in a dual boot environment before attempting it, sounds like it may just
work ok.

Many thanks for the info David!

--
Don

> Quicken, itself, will run on Vista x64 without problem. The only problems

> I'm having with it are with Billminder and its corresponding Gadget.

> Under Vista x86, these semi-worked. But, under x64, they give nothing.

> See:

http://www.quickencommunity.com/webx/Forums/Quicken%20Personal%20Finance%20Software%20Forum%20for%20Windows/Product%20feedback%20and%20suggestions/469/23

> If that link doesn't work (too long), go to the Quicken Community home

> page (http://www.quickencommunity.com/index.html), go to the Quicken for

> Windows forum, and then the Product Feedback and Suggestions sub-forum.

> It's my thread entitled: "Quicken 2008: Billminder and Gadget Problems".

> I've never printed anything to paper from Quicken, so I can't say anything

> about that. But, I download my financial information from many places

> online and have no problems.

> Regarding your dual boot setup, I've never run anything like that. But,

> for a while, I ran Quicken under an XP Virtual Machine while also running

> it under Vista x86. I shared the folder that the Quicken data file was in

> so that both instances of Quicken could see the data. They each saw the

> data as being under a different drive letter but ran without problem. My

> guess is that your situation should be fine.

> Dave Lessnau

>> Hey gang,

>> I run Quicken 2008 Deluxe, on XP Pro 32 bit.

>> Last weekend, I installed Vista 64 bit Ultimate, on it's own hard drive,

>> to dual boot with XP Pro. Mainly to just play around with Vista 64 bit,

>> but finding I am liking it more and more. I am curious on couple of

>> things.

>> 1: Will Quicken 2008 run ok on Vista 64 bit? I have done some searching,

>> it appears perhaps the main problem would be getting it to print, may

>> have to print to pdf first. That is no biggie to me, as I don't do a lot

>> of printing from within Quicken. I do download my financial data from my

>> bank's website on a daily basis. Anyone running Quicken 2008 that is

>> doing this, with no issue on Vista 64 bit?

>> 2: Should I decide to install Quicken on my Vista 64 bit install, I would

>> prefer to continue to run it on my XP Pro install as well, run in

>> parallel so to speak for a while. I could see myself eventually migrating

>> to Vista as my main OS, but want to give it time first.

>> Right now, Vista is on it's own hard drive, when I boot into Vista it

>> see's the Vista partition as drive C, and I have another partition on

>> that drive for data as well. My XP Pro install is on another hard drive,

>> and of course when I boot into XP Pro it sees it's partition as drive C,

>> and the Vista partition on the other drive changes to like drive L.

>> Could Quicken 2008, be successfully installed on Vista, and run in both

>> Vista and XP in this scenario, or would I run into major conflicts?

>> Thanks for any feedback here,

>> --

>> Don