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Quicken H&B 2007 won't start Richard Evans 05-31-2008
Posted by Richard Evans on May 31, 2008, 3:02 pm
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Out of the blue, I can no longer start Quicken. The splash screen
flashes briefly, and that's it. It won't start in Safe Mode either.
I'm running XP SP2

Any suggestions?

Posted by JimH on May 31, 2008, 3:34 pm
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Richard Evans wrote:
> Out of the blue, I can no longer start Quicken. The splash screen
> flashes briefly, and that's it. It won't start in Safe Mode either.
> I'm running XP SP2
>
> Any suggestions?

I don't have H&B, but I had the same problem with Quicken. I spent
several hours with Intuit support, and they were not able to resolve the
problem.

Before doing anything, make sure you have a good backup copy of your
data files somewhere else. You don't want to destroy your data. You can
use Windows explorer to copy your data files to another location, or to
a CD.

I tried a lot of things that did not work. If you haven't tried them you
might try...
- Reinstalling Quicken
- Moving your data file, so quicken can't find it, then start the
program without a data file. Then try opening your file.
- Try your data on another computer.

I ended up deleting the temp files in "c:documents and settingsall
usersIntuitQuicken". I then did a "repair install". That resolved the
problem.

I believe that one of the temp files from account download had been
corrupted. That caused the problems with the program. The reinstall was
needed because the program expects some of the temp files to be there.
Reinstalling placed new clean copies in the temp file directory.

Hope this helps
--
Jim

Posted by JimH on May 31, 2008, 3:37 pm
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JimH wrote:
> I ended up deleting the temp files in "c:documents and settingsall
> usersIntuitQuicken". I then did a "repair install". That resolved the
> problem.
>
Oops! That should be "c:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication
DataIntuitQuicken"

--
Jim

Posted by Richard Evans on May 31, 2008, 6:00 pm
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>Richard Evans wrote:
>> Out of the blue, I can no longer start Quicken. The splash screen
>> flashes briefly, and that's it. It won't start in Safe Mode either.
>> I'm running XP SP2
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
>I don't have H&B, but I had the same problem with Quicken. I spent
>several hours with Intuit support, and they were not able to resolve the
>problem.
>
>Before doing anything, make sure you have a good backup copy of your
>data files somewhere else. You don't want to destroy your data. You can
>use Windows explorer to copy your data files to another location, or to
>a CD.
>
>I tried a lot of things that did not work. If you haven't tried them you
>might try...
>- Reinstalling Quicken

T%hat's my next step.

>- Moving your data file, so quicken can't find it, then start the
>program without a data file. Then try opening your file.

Did that. Same results: Just a flash of the splash screen, which
implies it's failing before it even looks for the files.

>- Try your data on another computer.

I'll keep that in mind.

>
>I ended up deleting the temp files in "c:documents and settingsall
>usersIntuitQuicken". I then did a "repair install". That resolved the
>problem.

This too.



Posted by Richard Evans on May 31, 2008, 6:30 pm
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>
>I ended up deleting the temp files in "c:documents and settingsall
>usersIntuitQuicken". I then did a "repair install". That resolved the
>problem.
>

I did the "repair install" without deleting the file and it works now.
Thanks. I never knew about "repair install" before.

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