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Speeding up Quicken Deluxe Jeff 07-04-2006
Posted by Andy Levy on July 5, 2006, 10:07 pm
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 On 7/4/2006 19:57, Jeff wrote:
> Using Quicken Deluxe 06 in Windows.

> As far as PCs are concerned, which is most effective at speeding Quicken,
> more RAM or a faster CPU?

That depends - how much RAM do you have, and is it maxed out? Are you
fully utilizing your CPU?

For example, I'm running WinXP with an AMD Athlon 1.33GHz (Thunderbird)
and 768MB RAM. Task Manager shows I have 302MB of physical memory
available out of that 768MB total. qw.exe is showing as using 38MB of
RAM and 28MB of virtual memory.

Adding more RAM wouldn't speed Quicken up for me at all, because I still
have close to 50% of my physical RAM free - if Quicken needs more RAM,
it's there for the taking. Doubling my RAM would just mean that 75% of
it would be free instead of 50% free.

However, during certain actions in Quicken (accepting downloaded
transactions), I can see in Task Manager that my CPU is pegged at 100%
usage, and most of that is being used by qw.exe. So increasing my
processor speed might improve Quicken's performance during those actions.

Posted by Jeff on July 6, 2006, 7:25 am
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 Thanks. That makes sense. I'll check it out.

I have the Quicken data files within a Cryptainer (encrypts them on the fly)
volume too which probably does not help if it is the CPU that is maxed out.

Jeff

> On 7/4/2006 19:57, Jeff wrote:
>> Using Quicken Deluxe 06 in Windows.
>
>> As far as PCs are concerned, which is most effective at speeding Quicken,
>> more RAM or a faster CPU?
>
> That depends - how much RAM do you have, and is it maxed out? Are you
> fully utilizing your CPU?
>
> For example, I'm running WinXP with an AMD Athlon 1.33GHz (Thunderbird)
> and 768MB RAM. Task Manager shows I have 302MB of physical memory
> available out of that 768MB total. qw.exe is showing as using 38MB of
> RAM and 28MB of virtual memory.
>
> Adding more RAM wouldn't speed Quicken up for me at all, because I still
> have close to 50% of my physical RAM free - if Quicken needs more RAM,
> it's there for the taking. Doubling my RAM would just mean that 75% of
> it would be free instead of 50% free.
>
> However, during certain actions in Quicken (accepting downloaded
> transactions), I can see in Task Manager that my CPU is pegged at 100%
> usage, and most of that is being used by qw.exe. So increasing my
> processor speed might improve Quicken's performance during those actions.




Posted by andy.levy@gmail.com on July 6, 2006, 1:52 pm
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Jeff wrote:
> Thanks. That makes sense. I'll check it out.
>
> I have the Quicken data files within a Cryptainer (encrypts them on the fly)
> volume too which probably does not help if it is the CPU that is maxed out.

Depends on how Quicken and Cryptainer has things implemented. I didn't
notice much of a performance hit when I put my Q data into a TrueCrypt
volume. If Quicken doesn't write to disk immediately after a data
change, the CPU being maxed out may not be a factor.


Posted by Jeff on July 6, 2006, 8:00 am
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Andy Levy wrote:
> On 7/4/2006 19:57, Jeff wrote:
>> Using Quicken Deluxe 06 in Windows.
>
>> As far as PCs are concerned, which is most effective at speeding
>> Quicken, more RAM or a faster CPU?
>
> That depends - how much RAM do you have, and is it maxed out? Are you
> fully utilizing your CPU?

Sorry to ask a stupid question, but how exactly does one figure out that.
Is there a built in utility that shows this or allows you to determine it?

Thanks.

Jeff




Posted by andy.levy@gmail.com on July 6, 2006, 10:53 am
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Jeff wrote:
> Andy Levy wrote:
> > On 7/4/2006 19:57, Jeff wrote:
> >> Using Quicken Deluxe 06 in Windows.
> >
> >> As far as PCs are concerned, which is most effective at speeding
> >> Quicken, more RAM or a faster CPU?
> >
> > That depends - how much RAM do you have, and is it maxed out? Are you
> > fully utilizing your CPU?
>
> Sorry to ask a stupid question, but how exactly does one figure out that.
> Is there a built in utility that shows this or allows you to determine it?

If you're using an NT-based Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista) you
can use Task Manager. Right-click your taskbar and select Task
Manager, or hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and select "Task List"


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