Accounting Talk

Jon Sebastian · Guest

I have been using Quicken XG (2004) in UK with Window XP and now am having
to upgrade to my new computer which has Vista. I understand this
application will not operate on Vista. I have tried migrating to Money 2005
but that application does not seem to import all my transactions. Intuit
suggest that I buy Quickbooks Pro 2008 and use that. Will Quickbooks Pro
work OK?
Does anyone have any thoughts or recommendations?

Thanks Jon

R. C. White · Guest

Hi, Jon.

I'm in the USA, have never been to the UK, and have never used Quicken XG.
But I don't understand why Quicken XG (2004) would not work with Vista.

Jon Sebastian · Guest

Hi RC

Please see links below re non compatibility. Also have met with same
problem myself

http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=10531869&sort=recommendations
http://www.pctips.org.uk/html/windows_vista.html

Jon

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Laura · Guest

There are numerous internet postings that say that 2004 through 2006
programs for quickbooks, quicken and peachtree won't work with Vista. I know
several people that have been able to get their programs to work. Vista
allows you to install/run programs in XP compatibility mode. Do all options
work properly? Probably not. In many cases it is not the operating system
that is causing the problem. It is IE7 that is the culprit. Many people had
problems on XP when they installed IE7.

Try installing 2004 on Vista to see if it will work. You may have to install
it in XP mode to get it to work but it is worth a shot.

If you feel that it is not working then get 2008 Quicken and not QB pro.
Unless you have needs to to invoicing, etc QB is overkill for most household
financial tracking. I suspect that the sale person was just trying to con
you into buying a more expensive program.

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Laura

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R. C. White · Guest

Hi, Jon.

While some users have reported compatibility problems, so far as I know,
most have not.

During Vista's lengthy beta period, I tested several successive builds of
both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Vista, starting in about August 2005
and continuing through Vista's RTM in November 2006. I've continued to run
Quicken on Vista (mostly Ultimate x64) to the present. I installed (many
times!) and ran Basic or Deluxe versions of Quicken 2005, 2006, 2007 and now
2008. While there were a few glitches (mostly with initial installations or
with automatic installations of Quicken Releases), all versions of Quicken
ran well with all versions of Vista.

I do not claim that there was perfect compatibility, or that I did not have
frustrations sometimes. But, all in all, Vista had fewer problems with
Quicken than with Photoshop or Nero or several other applications during the
transition period.

This was with all-USA products, as I said, and I have no experience with UK
versions of either Vista or Quicken. Your second link is not dated, so far
as I can see, but it seems to have been written soon after Vista was
released over a year ago, and the author was using it on a computer with
only 512 MB of RAM, which is barely adequate to install Vista. That article
includes this assertion:

"Vista won't run Quicken

"Intuit, the manufacturer of Quicken, stopped releasing UK versions of
Quicken after Quicken 2004.

"But versions of Quicken up to and including 2004 will not run on Windows
Vista. (You can install them, but they won't run)."

I have no way of testing whether that assertion was true, or if it is still
true today. If you have information about the current status of Quicken XG
2004 and Vista, could you please update us all?

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Quicken 2008 Deluxe in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)

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R. C. White · Guest

Hi, Laura.

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Stevey · Guest

Quicken 99 runs fine with Vista.

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R. C. White · Guest

Hi, Stevey.

Is that the UK (British) version of Quicken 99?

We're discussing the UK versions specifically, since we know that all US
versions run fine with Vista. The OP said "I understand this application
[Quicken XG (2004) in UK] will not operate on Vista." We're just trying to
determine whether the XG versions of Quicken will or will not run on Vista.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Quicken 2008 Deluxe in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)

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Stevey · Guest

No, it's the US version. Sorry.

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