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Posted by hexHeadŽ on March 12, 2008, 6:05 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:36:29 GMT, "David H. Lipman"
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>| Browsing the Quicken Community Forums, I've seen nothing but horror
>| stories there regarding screen flickering - going back to version
>| 2007, and maybe earlier. I just had an opportunity to take 2008
>| Deluxe for a test spin (currently using 2006 Deluxe) and found the
>| same problem. My screen flickers and redraws so often this
>| application is unusable.
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>| Suggested fixes there included and entire gamut of possibilities,
>| including changing PDF driver settings, changing fonts, lowering
>| screen resolutions & video driver acceleration, removing USB devices,
>| and uninstalling MS Intellipoint.
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>| From all the different "solutions" posted there, two things seem to be
>| clear; .. that Intuit has absolutely no idea what's causing this
>| problem, and that they have no intention of fixing it.
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>| Does that sound about right? I run dozens of applications on XP-SP2 &
>| Vista systems here and NONE of them seem to have this problem. CLEARLY
>| this is an issue with Quicken, even though it is more expedient and
>| fashionable these days to place blame elsewhere. (I especially liked
>| the post there that contained a reply from Intuit claiming that this
>| was "not a known issue" - why then the dozens of pages in their forums
>| stating otherwise??...)
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>| Apparently this problem still exists after what looks like years of
>| consumer complaints, and it isn't even being addressed, much less
>| fixed. This is a dealbreaker if there ever was one...
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>Change the video refresh rate.
I've tried that - including all of the other "fixes" people suggested
and NOTHING works.
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