Quicken and Vista 64

Posted by crimlaw on February 28, 2009, 6:06 am

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I am in the UK and use Quicken 2000 deluxe for my home accounts. I am
getting a new computer soon with Vista 64 bit. I gather that my
version of Quicken won't run. Quicken no longer offers UK support.
What should I upgrade or change to so I can import my old Quicken file?

Posted by JIP on March 1, 2009, 12:37 pm

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> I am in the UK and use Quicken 2000 deluxe for my home accounts. I am

> getting a new computer soon with Vista 64 bit. I gather that my

> version of Quicken won't run. Quicken no longer offers UK support.

> What should I upgrade or change to so I can import my old Quicken file?

Hi - also in the UK and using 64bit Vista- 2000 deluxe will not work! That
is what I had been using as well before getting a new computer.

I am now running 2008 home and business quite happily (after solving
printing problems with the help of John Pollard in this group). It seems
that some people with 64 bit windows have problems printing, and some don't.
In my case every other piece of software printed OK, but not Quicken 2008.
Which convinced me it must be Quicken's fault. But John pointed me to "the
truth" and the solution. The workaround is that you have to install Quicken
off the root directory (i.e. C:Quicken, not C:Program filesQuicken.

I'm afraid you will find though that converting Quicken 2000 UK files is a
nightmare that I gave up on. I just started afresh.

You also have to realise that new versions of Quicken are not geared for the
UK. You have to go inside and set it to use international currencies, and
then select UK for the accounts. But then it works - or at least it does so
in the way that I use it.

An alternative route that I used for a while was to use Microsoft's free
Virtual PC 2007 to install a virtual Windows XP environment onto my new
computer, and I was able to install Quicken 2000 into that and use it quite
happily. You could also set up a dual-boot arrangement to have XP on your
computer, but the Virtual PC option is much simpler. Although I now use 2008
Quicken directly within Vista, at least I can access my archive files from
the virtual set up.

I don't come to this group very often, but will try to watch more closely
for a few days in case you want to ask more.