Quicken 2009 Deluxe on Windows 7

Posted by R. C. White on August 6, 2009, 9:00 pm

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Hi, Gang.

Thanks to my MSDN subscription, I was able to download and install Windows 7
Ultimate x64 (RTM) today. One of the first applications I installed, of
course, was Quicken 2009 Deluxe. As usual, I installed it to E:QuickenW.
It calmly overwrote the existing Q09D which I had been running earlier today
on the RC (Release Candidate) version of Win7. On the final screen, I
declined the invitation start Quicken, and clicked Done instead. Then I
browsed to my *.qdf file, clicked it, and Quicken started with my current
data loaded and ready to go! ;<)

There is some minor tweaking to be done, of course, as there always is when
Quicken must be installed again (Edit | Preferences | Quicken Program |
Register | QuickFill, and check Use enter key to move between fields.
That's one of several settings that I have to change every time.)

But, to head off the questions that always get asked at a time like this:
YES, Quicken runs fine on Windows 7! ;<)

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Using Quicken Deluxe 2009 and Windows Live Mail in Win7 x64)

Posted by Bob Wang on August 6, 2009, 9:44 pm

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Thanks, RC!

Posted by Ken Blake on August 7, 2009, 11:22 am

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wrote:

> But, to head off the questions that always get asked at a time like this:

> YES, Quicken runs fine on Windows 7! ;<)

I'll chime in to say that my experience is the same as RC's. I've been
running Quicken 2009 under Windows 7 RC since Windows 7 RC was
released, and, like RC, under Windows 7 RTM since yesterday. Yes, it
runs fine under either one.

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Posted by Meebers on August 7, 2009, 3:40 pm

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R.C. Why the install on E:? Is that a partition on your main drive or
external drive or??

> Hi, Gang.

> Thanks to my MSDN subscription, I was able to download and install Windows

> 7 Ultimate x64 (RTM) today. One of the first applications I installed, of

> course, was Quicken 2009 Deluxe. As usual, I installed it to E:QuickenW.

> It calmly overwrote the existing Q09D which I had been running earlier

> today on the RC (Release Candidate) version of Win7. On the final screen,

> I declined the invitation start Quicken, and clicked Done instead. Then I

> browsed to my *.qdf file, clicked it, and Quicken started with my current

> data loaded and ready to go! ;<)

> There is some minor tweaking to be done, of course, as there always is

> when Quicken must be installed again (Edit | Preferences | Quicken Program

> | Register | QuickFill, and check Use enter key to move between fields.

> That's one of several settings that I have to change every time.)

> But, to head off the questions that always get asked at a time like this:

> YES, Quicken runs fine on Windows 7! ;<)

> RC

> --

> R. C. White, CPA

> San Marcos, TX

> (Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)

> rc@grandecom.net

> Microsoft Windows MVP

> (Using Quicken Deluxe 2009 and Windows Live Mail in Win7 x64)

Posted by R. C. White on August 7, 2009, 4:46 pm

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Hi, Meebers.

Long before the "Program Files" folder was introduced, I started using
multiple partitions to organize my computer. When things were still simple,
Drive C: was for Windows, D: for Applications and E: for Data. Then I
started dual-booting with Win95/NT4 - and my logical organization got
disorganized. But Quicken was still installed in E:QuickenW, with the "W"
a holdover from when Quicken moved from MS-DOS to Windows in the early
1990's.

For a few years, I dual-booted Windows versions that couldn't read NTFS or
FAT32 or vice-versa. But I made sure they could all read Drive E: - and
kept installing Quicken there. In fact, I could install a single copy of
Quicken from multiple Windows versions (Win98 and Win2K, for example),
letting each of them make entries in its own Registry, but sharing the
qw.exe and other program files - and a single Quicken fileset. When Program
Files was introduced, I continued to use E:QuickenW for Win2K, WinXP,
Vista - and now Win7. When I installed WinXP x64 - my first 64-bit OS - and
encountered "Program Files (x86)", I became very glad that I had
E:QuickenW! Both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows can run Quicken from there.
;<)

My first TRS-80 in 1977 didn't have even a floppy drive, Now I have 4 HDDs,
all internal SATA II, and I've created so many partitions on them that I'm
running out of letters in the English alphabet. I currently have 7 Windows
installations - most are betas and/or outdated and I just haven't deleted
them yet. I still have about 400 GB unused on my newest HDD, a 1 TB
Seagate. Drive E: is a 100 GB logical drive in the extended partition on
Disk 2, a RAID 1 mirror on my 3rd and 4th HDDs.

So, the short answer is that I use E:QuickenW to avoid both Program Files
and Program Files (x86). This system has worked fine for over a decade,
through many different Windows versions, both 32-bit and 64-bit.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Using Quicken Deluxe 2009 and Windows Live Mail in Win7 x64)

> R.C. Why the install on E:? Is that a partition on your main drive or

> external drive or??

>> Hi, Gang.

>> Thanks to my MSDN subscription, I was able to download and install

>> Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (RTM) today. One of the first applications I

>> installed, of course, was Quicken 2009 Deluxe. As usual, I installed it

>> to E:QuickenW. It calmly overwrote the existing Q09D which I had been

>> running earlier today on the RC (Release Candidate) version of Win7. On

>> the final screen, I declined the invitation start Quicken, and clicked

>> Done instead. Then I browsed to my *.qdf file, clicked it, and Quicken

>> started with my current data loaded and ready to go! ;<)

>> There is some minor tweaking to be done, of course, as there always is

>> when Quicken must be installed again (Edit | Preferences | Quicken

>> Program | Register | QuickFill, and check Use enter key to move between

>> fields. That's one of several settings that I have to change every time.)

>> But, to head off the questions that always get asked at a time like this:

>> YES, Quicken runs fine on Windows 7! ;<)

>> RC