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Posted by pennhaven on October 24, 2006, 3:31 pm
Please log in for more thread options John Pollard wrote:
>> John Pollard wrote:
>>>> 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.
>
>> I have Quicken 2006 H&B (as mentioned in my first reply), not
>> 2004. It's the originator of this thread that has 2004.
>
> Sorry about that; my isp only keeps posts for about 48 hours,
> sometimes less; and I frequently have to do more work than I
> would like to see all the posts in a thread.
>
> But I tested using Q2004 H&B, Q2005 Deluxe, and Q2006 Premier,
> R4. None produced the problem you describe.
>
Then my experience would indicate that the Quicken print routine (in
Quicken 2006 R4) interacts differently with Vista (Beta 2, RC1, & RC2)
than with windows XP.
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