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Quicken Deluxe 2004 & Vista? DotCom 10-08-2006
Posted by Bob Wang on October 11, 2006, 12:42 pm
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 R. C.:

"It's true that MS-DOS can't read NTFS,"

This is getting WAY OFF topic in regards to Quicken, but there are utilities
to allow read/write to NTFS partitions from DOS:

http://www.bootdisk.com/ntfs.htm

I used to have a Win98/DOS partition on all my drives to allow me to use
Drive Image and Boot/Partition Magic.

BUT, since I started using True Image (Thanks to Margaret), I no longer need
my small DOS partitions.

Bob



Posted by ken on October 11, 2006, 5:15 pm
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 DotCom wrote:
> Does anyone know if Q deluxe 2004 works with Windows Vista?
> What about the new version of Quicken (2007)?
>
> TIA
>
>
I just installed Q deluxe 2004 into Vista RC2. I had no problems with
the install or opening of my data. I did very limited testing, but it
seems to work just fine.

Posted by pennhaven on October 15, 2006, 12:29 pm
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DotCom wrote:
> Does anyone know if Q deluxe 2004 works with Windows Vista?
> What about the new version of Quicken (2007)?

I've been usiing Quicken 2006 H&B with all of the Vista Public releases
so far (Beta 2, RC1, & RC2) with only minor problems.

-Had to run in Vista's XP SP2 compatability mode with RC1/RC2 to
overcome some display issues.

-Quicken would not close properly in RC1, always generating a error in
Vista. This has been corrected with Vista RC2.

-Vista treats the Qucken PDF "Printer" as the default printing device.
Even if I set my actual hardware printer to the default, Vista will
reset back to the Quicken virtual printer. I have yet to uninstall the
Quicken PDF Printer device to permanently resolve this issue. Can anyone
tell me what functionality I would lose in Quicken if I did so?

Posted by pennhaven on October 23, 2006, 11:26 am
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pennhaven wrote:
> -Vista treats the Qucken PDF "Printer" as the default printing device.
> Even if I set my actual hardware printer to the default, Vista will
> reset back to the Quicken virtual printer. I have yet to uninstall the
> Quicken PDF Printer device to permanently resolve this issue. Can anyone
> tell me what functionality I would lose in Quicken if I did so?

I figured this one out. This is not a bug in Vista, rather it is a quirk
in Quicken. While I hadn't been doing any actual printing with Quicken
in Vista, I had been "printing" to tab delimited text files on disk in
order to import Quicken portfolio views to Excel.

When I did this I was concentrating on what file and format I was
"printing" to and ignoring the fact that the Quicken print dialog for
the physical printer was set to the "Quicken PDF Printer". So everytime
I used the "print" function to export my portfolio data Quicken was
actually telling Vista to reset the default printer!

Once I changed the printer selection in Quicken to my actual default
printer this problem was solved. While this is a relatively minor issue
Quicken really should not be changing the operating system's default
printer every time it "prints". The default printer selection should be
left to the operating system not an application.

Posted by John Pollard on October 23, 2006, 1:21 pm
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> pennhaven wrote:
> > -Vista treats the Qucken PDF "Printer" as the default
> printing device.
>> Even if I set my actual hardware printer to the default,
>> Vista will reset back to the Quicken virtual printer. I have
>> yet to uninstall the Quicken PDF Printer device to
>> permanently resolve this issue. Can anyone tell me what
>> functionality I would lose in Quicken if I did so?

> I figured this one out. This is not a bug in Vista, rather it
> is a quirk in Quicken. While I hadn't been doing any actual
> printing with Quicken in Vista, I had been "printing" to tab
> delimited text files on disk in order to import Quicken
> portfolio views to Excel.
>
> When I did this I was concentrating on what file and format I
> was "printing" to and ignoring the fact that the Quicken print
> dialog for the physical printer was set to the "Quicken PDF
> Printer". So everytime I used the "print" function to export
> my portfolio data Quicken was actually telling Vista to reset
> the default printer!
>
> Once I changed the printer selection in Quicken to my actual
> default printer this problem was solved. While this is a
> relatively minor issue Quicken really should not be changing
> the operating system's default printer every time it "prints".
> The default printer selection should be left to the operating
> system not an application.
It sure does sound quirky; perhaps quirkier than you suggest.

1.) I do not see the behavior you see: I have Windows XP Pro and
Q2004 H&B, R5. Changing the Quicken printer (or printing from
Quicken to a non-Windows default printer) does not change the
Windows default printer.

2.) I don't think Q2004 has been modified for a long time, so
I'm guessing it issues the same instructions in my XP that it
does in your Vista... or tries to anyway. I can't figure how
Q2004 could have acquired the ability to modify the system
default printer.

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John Pollard
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