Windows & Quicken

Posted by Stubby on January 2, 2007, 6:43 am

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GF just tried to install QB07 on her Win98ME machine. But QB says
Win98ME is not supported. I presume that's because Microsoft no longer
supports Win98ME.

Posted by sharx35 on January 2, 2007, 8:05 am

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> GF just tried to install QB07 on her Win98ME machine. But QB says

> Win98ME is not supported. I presume that's because Microsoft no longer

> supports Win98ME.

This is 2 thousand and EFFING SEVEN, for SAKE. Time for her to get VISTA.

Posted by P.Schuman on January 2, 2007, 9:42 am

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> GF just tried to install QB07 on her Win98ME machine. But QB says

> Win98ME is not supported. I presume that's because Microsoft no longer

> supports Win98ME.

Wonder what the CPU is on that Win98 machine ?
We have a Win98se desktop machine we use for very basic stuff,
and the rest are XP laptops in the house.
We HAD to move our Quicken 2004 to our laptop
because of the lack of horsepower on the Win98se (233Mhz).

Posted by Stubby on January 2, 2007, 3:17 pm

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P.Schuman wrote:

>> GF just tried to install QB07 on her Win98ME machine. But QB says

>> Win98ME is not supported. I presume that's because Microsoft no longer

>> supports Win98ME.

> Wonder what the CPU is on that Win98 machine ?

> We have a Win98se desktop machine we use for very basic stuff,

> and the rest are XP laptops in the house.

> We HAD to move our Quicken 2004 to our laptop

> because of the lack of horsepower on the Win98se (233Mhz).

Exactly, but she has a 450 MHz CPU. It works fine, she understands it
and it is solid as a rock. Moving to Vista is a disaster in the making.
I doubt that it will run on her machine so we'll have to spend some
$$$ on a new machine, a bigger hard disk, probably more memory and the
copy of Vista. And then we will cope with Vista slowness.

Posted by P.Schuman on January 2, 2007, 4:25 pm

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> P.Schuman wrote:

> >> GF just tried to install QB07 on her Win98ME machine. But QB says

> >> Win98ME is not supported. I presume that's because Microsoft no longer

> >> supports Win98ME.

> >

> > Wonder what the CPU is on that Win98 machine ?

> > We have a Win98se desktop machine we use for very basic stuff,

> > and the rest are XP laptops in the house.

> > We HAD to move our Quicken 2004 to our laptop

> > because of the lack of horsepower on the Win98se (233Mhz).

> >

> Exactly, but she has a 450 MHz CPU. It works fine, she understands it

> and it is solid as a rock. Moving to Vista is a disaster in the making.

> I doubt that it will run on her machine so we'll have to spend some

> $$$ on a new machine, a bigger hard disk, probably more memory and the

> copy of Vista. And then we will cope with Vista slowness.

yup - I'm typing now on the Dell 233 from 1997 - and it works fine
EXCEPT for those programs that are HUGE with lots of eye candy
or require some function that is not implemented on Win98se...
Running Office 98 - and Eudora email,
and IE 6.0 (that was forced by either Quicken or Turbotax)
What more do you need :)