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Posted by Jerry Boyle on July 21, 2007, 7:14 am
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Don,
I'm not sure you intended to address this to me, but I'll take a shot at it.
It looks like you have an access permission problem, both here and with your
backup issue.
There's a table in Windows that relates file type (e.g. ".qdf") to the
default program that should be used to process that file type.
I think that Web Connect files are type ".qfx".
When you uninstalled Quicken you probably deleted the Web Connect entry from
the above table. Now, each time Quicken starts, it's detecting that the
entry is missing and prompting you to add it back. However, this is a system
table and you need administrator privileges to modify it (which you or the
Quicken program probably don't have). So it looks like the table update is
failing and that's why you keep getting the same prompt each time you open
Quicken.
I'm brand new to Vista so take the following with a grain of salt.
The way I think you should handle Quicken under Vista is to install and run
it under the same administrative account. Under Vista there is a mechanism
called User Account Control (UAC). If UAC is enabled, and it should be, each
time a program with administrative privileges tries to modify a system table
Vista throws up a prompt screen asking you for permission to continue. In
your "Web Connect" case you would give that permission, Vista would allow
Quicken to update file type-default program association table and you'd
never see the prompt again.
That's the way I think things "should" work. Unfortunately I'm not enough of
an expert to deduce what's happening on your system or tell you how to
correct it.
As an aside, let me speculate on why you can backup to removable devices and
not to your hard drives. It may have to do with the type of file system. I
suspect that your removable devices are formatted as FAT or FAT32 while your
hard drives are formatted as NTFS. NTFS has security control while FAT and
FAT32 don't. For example, I have two external hard drives connected via USB.
One is formatted NTFS and it has the Security tab that Andrew DeFaria tells
you about in his post; the other is formatted FAT32 and has no Security tab.
Sorry that I can't pinpoint your exact problem, but I hope the above helps.
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