Installing Quicken on Vista
February 22nd, 2007
Installing Quicken on Vista can be quite frustrating for people. A client of mine installed the software and was unable to get Quicken to open up and could not uninstall it. The trick is that you need to run the install as Administrator or you will run into problems. First lets go through the steps to install Quicken:
- Insert your Quicken install disc. Click Cancel when the installation prompt appears.
- Go to Computer (click the Start button and go to Computer).
- Right-click the Quicken CD and select Open.
- Right-click install.exe.
- Select Run as Administrator.
- If the UAC prompt appears, click Allow.
The Quicken install screen will appear, follow its instructions to install the software. The installation can take a long time to complete. It took my client’s installation over an hour, so be patient.
If you have already installed Quicken and did not use the above mentioned method, you probably are pretty frustrated because it doesn’t work. You will also find that it doesn’t uninstall. Since we need to uninstall the software before we can load it on the computer, these steps must be followed:
- Download the Windows Installer Clean Up Utility from Microsoft.
- After downloading the utility, install it by double-clicking msicuu2.exe.
- Click the Start button, followed by All Programs and select Windows Install Clean Up.
- When the utility appears, find Quicken in the list and select it.
- Click the Remove button.
- Once the utility has completed, reboot your computer.
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February 23rd, 2007 at 5:58 am
Hi, good info. Except you didn’t mention what version of quicken. I installed Quicken Home and Business 2007 on Vista Premium with no problems whatsoever. It seems to be working perfectly and I didn’t have to jump through any of the hoops you describe.
February 25th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Really saved my butt.
March 1st, 2007 at 10:39 pm
I didn’t have the same luck Jeff did. Installing Quicken Home and Business 2007 on Vista Premium took all day. I even contacted Quicken with no help. After a failed install, I could not remove it through uninstall, Quicken tools, Installer Cleanup, or any other method. Finally out of despair I installed Quicken 2006 without opening or updating. I followed immediately by installing Home and Business 2007; this allowed me to completely uninstall both. I then followed the above instructions and it went well. Thanks.
March 2nd, 2007 at 5:13 am
I’ve tried all of that with a brand new PC & Vista Business. The Microsoft tool does not even show Quicken, yet part of Quicken is on my start menu. The message I always receive in trying to install the program is that the installer had to quit. My QuickBooks 2006 Pro runs fine.
March 5th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
After reading the posts of 2/22 thru 3/2, I performed an install of Quicken Basic 2006 on Windows Vista Home Premium. Hardware is 2.53 GHz Pentium 4 with 1 GB RAM. Note that this was a clean install (not an upgrade from XP) of Vista.
Installation of program took 60 seconds. It asked if I wanted to update Quicken; I responded “yes”. It tried to contact the update site, but I canceled after it tried in vain for three minutes. I then launched Quicken, and it asked me if I was an existing Quicken user; I replied “yes”. Quicken asked me whether I was restoring Quicken from a backup (yes). I inserted my Flash drive containing the backup, browsed to the directory containing the backup, and imported the file. Clicked “File, Open” on the menu bar, selected my Quicken file, and voila, Quicken was up. I went to go download the “latest data” from my checking account, and Quicken replied that I needed to register the software. I had previously done this last April. So I re-registered (It wanted to know my Quicken.com username and password, so I entered them), and it accepted the registration. I could then download the latest financial info as usual.
Pretty painless, I thought. Don’t underestimate the ability of spyware and 4-year old XP installations to give you trouble like the other people in previous posts experienced. I hope your installation goes well.
Eric
March 8th, 2007 at 10:46 am
Thank You SOOOOO Much! After a couple of hours messing with this and live chatting with Quicken, nothing worked. Your suggestion worked flawlessly the first time!
March 8th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Thanks very much. Like Diana, I wasted a lot of time until I found your steps. Worked perfectly!
March 8th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Update still crashes!
Flushed with success, I tried the manual update for R4; right-clicking and “install as administrator” as per Quicken’s explicit direction. It crashed the system and I had to follow your steps all over again. Any thoughts to update or do we stay with R2?
March 8th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
I’ll do some research and testing and see what I can come up with.
March 8th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Thank you, This truely helped more than Quicken.
March 9th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
To Jim P:
What I did for the Software update:
Downloaded manually the R5 (for Quicken Basic 2006) update off Quicken website here:
http://services.quicken.intuit.com/patch/QW06R5Patch.exe
While logged in as an administrative user, I was able to double click the file and install. Worked for me fine without right-clicking and “install as administrator� step.
Hope this helps…
Eric
March 12th, 2007 at 5:35 am
This is one of the most helpful pages I have found on this tricky issue of installing Quicken in Vista. Great stuff.
I have a question for you all: If you are running Quicken 2007 Vista, is it really, really slow for you? My installation is sooo much slower than it was under XP.
Is this common?
March 12th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
For Charles:
What does your system look like (RAM, CPU, etc.)? You may already know that the system requirements for Vista far exceed those for XP.
Make sure your system is clean. Install and run the effective and free Spybot S&D, available at http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html . Update your antivirus definitions and perform a complete scan. That’s a good start.
Eric
March 13th, 2007 at 4:46 am
Hey Eric–
Thanks for the great questions. I’m running a Sony Vaio FE880E with a Core 2 Duo processor (1.66 ghz, I think) and 2 GB of RAM. I bought this computer a few days ago specifically and solely to run Quicken 2007, which is the only software I run on it, other than the Norton Security suite. I do keep the virus, spyware and other protections from Norton up to date.
I spent an hour and a half yesterday with the guys at Best Buy (who were actually super helpful and knowledgeable). When they disabled Norton temporarily, things were a tiny bit faster, but simple tasks, such as getting to the update accounts screen, take about two minues, versus the few seconds they took under XP.
I don’t want to downgrade to XP on my new laptop. Maybe I need to go back to running XP under Boot Camp on my Mac. . .
March 13th, 2007 at 4:47 am
PS: I’m not that knowledgeable about the Windows world, being a Mac guy by nature. Is it possible that Intuit needs to optimize Quicken to run under Vista, or is that concept not valid in the Windows world?
March 14th, 2007 at 7:35 am
Charles:
Have you registered your 2007 Quicken installation on their website? This helped me with the update procedure.
Eric
March 15th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Thanks for the tip, Eric. I’ve given up on running Quicken 2007 under Vista at this point. I’ve gone back to running it under XP, using BootCamp on my Mac Pro (dual Xeon 2.66 processors, 4 GB RAM). While XP lacks the razzle-dazzle of Vista, and while BootCamp is a definite hassle, with all the restarts, this solution feels workable, unlike the Vista molasses in January slowness.
March 17th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Thank you for making a daunting task easy
March 18th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
I wasted over an hour with Quicken Support trying to get Quicken 2007 to install on a new Vista notebook with no success. I had the “won’t uninstall” problem too and that was a dead end until I followed your tips above. Once you get the thing uninstalled, re-installing using the “right click” and “run as administrator” advice does the job. Thank you so much!!!
March 20th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Hi, I am trying to install Quicken on Window Vista, When I install Quicken on my Window Vista, I am getting error message Wizard error, I sent one Hours and still no luck, Will send me the setps at my E-mail address to fix my issue?
Thanks for help me.
March 20th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
I did Dell’s express Upgrade to Vista over the weekend, and Quicken 2007 Home & Business R4 seemed to run fine, although it kept asking me to locate the file to open and it asked me to re-accept some splits on a Security I had. Then I noticed a day later that some assets were missing price history; apparently Quicken was not using the QPH file (for price history) that belonged to the master file. Instead, it had created a new file called .QPH (no name before the dot that I could see). I was unable to overwrite it with the proper file. That’s when I realized that there was something wrong with my Quicken installation.
I then went through 3 hours with Dell support last night trying to do the Uninstall (including using the Windows Installer Clean Up Utility) with no success, until I restored the system back a day. Then I was able to uninstall and reinstall Quicken, then I crashed while trying to upgrade to R4. I restored again and reinstalled again, without doing the upgrade to R4, and while I got it working again, it had the same problem with the Price History as before. I had to stop because it was way too late.
Tonight I will try going through the process again more carefully as you all suggest, under the theory that I wasn’t doing everything as Administrator and as a result some security issues are preventing Quicken from reading or writing the right files. (As if I have a clue what I’m talking about there.)
So all of you that think you have a working Quicken — check your Price History. If it is asking you to locate a file, or if you have a [null].QPH file, you may not actually have a proper installation. It’s not supposed to work that way.
March 20th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
I FINALLY got quicken 2006 to work with Vista. I could not backup as it couldn’t find the source file. I also had to manually open the data file every time I ran Quicken. The solution is simple. Take your data files out of the My Documents folder and set up a separate folder for your data files on your main drive, i.e. C:\quicken.
Why Intuit doesn’t have this posted is beyond me.
March 23rd, 2007 at 3:19 am
HI,
I was running a very old verson of quicken (quicken5) with windows 98 SE. It met my needs. I now have a new computer with Vista. When trying to install my old quicken5 I get this: “you have to launch this program from the Windows Program Manager”. Is there anything I can do? any hope?
Thanks
March 23rd, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Laurence:
Isn’t “Windows Program Manager” a reference to Windows 95? I remember you could run Windows Program Manager from Win 98 using the command “progman”. Wow!
You can get yourself Quicken 2007 Deluxe at costco.com for $40 and not have to worry about compatibility issues for at least 5 years. Plus, there is some great functionality you may not be aware of there that may be extremely useful to you. You never know unless you try…
I would recommend the upgrade. If your time is worth not finding and implementing a workaround, so is the forty dollars.
Good luck on your mission…
Eric
March 25th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
My thanks to Mr. Tears. I was unable to install my 2001 version of Quicken on the Vista OS until I followed his instructions. It works just fine now, and installation took under a minute.
March 25th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Hi and Thanks. You identification of the problem was right on the money, right down to the “quite frustating for people”. After spending several hours over a few days trying to get quicken installed, and uninstalled with hopes of having it actually installed, I was just about to go back from Vista to XP. Read you fix and had the problem resolved in a few minutes. Thanks again.
April 25th, 2007 at 9:16 am
I tried doing the install as admin on my quicken 2006 on my new vista laptop. I can install and uninstall, but when I am asked if I am a quicken user, ….. and choose any of the options, restore, or open or set up a new file, quicken crashes and gives me an error 9217.
any ideas? I tried unintalling and reinstalling like 5 times with the same results. I just got the 2006 last oct on my other computer so I really dont’ have to have to buy 2007.
April 25th, 2007 at 10:47 am
Thank you - I cancelled a quicken update this morning when it stalled out and it rendered quicken unusable. Installer wouldn’t repair or uninstall it, add/remove programs did nothing - this utility is the only thing that fixed it. Reinstalling now - perfection. I’m so relieved.
April 30th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
I, too, just spent a whole day trying to get Quicken 2007 to work after upgrading to Vista. Reinstalling the program finally worked when I did it through the Program Compatibility Wizard, which I found under Control Panel > Programs > Use an older program with this version of Windows. I chose WinXP compatibility and installing as an administrator. It took only a couple minutes to install the program but half an hour to update to R4 from R1. Patience paid off, though. Thanks for the advice!
May 7th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
This works on QuickBooks 2006 also. It was much slower than XP’s install but it didn’t take 2 hours like some others have. If you get an error numbered 1904 click on ignore. The install will finish and then you can restore your backup from your old system or begin a new company. I also did this on a vista machine that did not have internet access at the time and it did fine. Thanks to the wonderful helpful person who figured this out. Bless You!
May 9th, 2007 at 3:58 am
I tried to load Quicken 2005 on XP and it took down most of my applications in Windows when it tried to upgrade to 2006. My brand new laptop has ALL SORTS of ERRORS now and I cannot even begin to imagine how to fix this, or what I have lost in the process.
May 17th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Have this problem can you give me specific procedure to do the following….Thanks
Fill Says:
March 20th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
I FINALLY got quicken 2006 to work with Vista. I could not backup as it couldn’t find the source file. I also had to manually open the data file every time I ran Quicken. The solution is simple. Take your data files out of the My Documents folder and set up a separate folder for your data files on your main drive, i.e. C:\quicken.
Why Intuit doesn’t have this posted is beyond me.
May 18th, 2007 at 9:26 am
THANK YOU! I wish I had read this before I spent 2 hours and constant attempts to install/uninstall and tearing out my hair…your instructions worked like a charm.
May 21st, 2007 at 4:36 am
you saved me, unfortunately after 2 days of frustration and fooling around with things I shouldn’t have on my pc (no aftershocks yet). alot of the people that wrote on here that had no problem were all people who were installing it for the 1st time. I had no problem installing my older verson the first time eithe….but when everything went to H-LL in a handbasket when i got a newer version and tried to install. My new when not install, it would get to a certsain point, then jump quickly to modify repair or remore, and i tried all three a dozen time only to have it tell me to try later. i searched uninstalled everything on my pc that said quicken or intuit only to be denied access to the obvious areas that were the problem and I do run as the administrator. My better half found your blog. You saved me from a prozac coctail. i still had one little glitch, it did uninstall the old version and it did do a clean install of the new one but when i tried to sign in as “a person who had quicken before” it shut me down everytime with an error. Finally I just signed in as a new quicken user, and after it loaded the database ledger, etc, beautifully i browsed to my saved files and loaded them, and reupped with my financial institute as if i were new, but thankfully my financial institute recognized it and gave me a quick update for the days i had lost. perfect…
Now if you can find the fix for Vista voice in yahoo Chat..i had finally found a backdoor way by using ytunnel 2. but it was my friends registration number and after having voice in chat for about a week, ytunnel popped up and said i was using an improper or something registration code and.phhttt..there she went. I have found no answers to the voice in chat problem anywhere, no voice on any other chat servers for yahoo or msn.
thanks again
May 30th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Thank you TONS for the insightful, useful, impressive, and simplistic info.
BIG help!
June 2nd, 2007 at 6:20 pm
I am still having trouble uninstalling. Quicken isn’t on my add/remove programs list and the Cleanup Install Utility doesn’t list Quicken either. I tried to just delete the Program Files\Quicken directory but it tells me I need to be an administrator. I thought I was. Right-clicking the directory and choosing delete does not allow me to tell it to do so as an administrator. Please help and thank you for this blog!
June 4th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Analisa:
You need to log in as an administrative USER (capital letters for emphasis) to run the Cleanup Install utility. I recommend that you find out who that user is (there has to be one; it will be someone’s name), log in as that user, and then run the Cleanup Install utility.
I would not recommend that you delete the Quicken directory, since any uninstall utility may require it to be present to succeed. FYI: you will not receive an option to delete a directory as an administrative user when you right click the directory; the right click option is usually reserved for running programs.
Proceed thusly, then please let us know how it went.
Best of luck!
Eric
June 8th, 2007 at 6:17 am
Eric,
Thanks for your install help! I have Quicken2007 R2, do you have instructions for updating to R5? My computer froze up several times trying to just download the update. I am Vista 1.8 GHZ, 2GB RAM.
June 14th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
I too tried to update Quicken 2007 and when I clicked update the program did not respond and when I closed the window it rendered Quicken unusable. So, when I downloaded that tool and ran it (as Administrator) this is what I get:
Script:
C:\*intentionally left blank - pertains only to my personal computer*\AppData\Local\Temp\IXP001.TMP\StartMsi.vbs
Line: 1
Char: 1
Error: ActiveX component can’t create object:
‘Scripting.FileSystemObject’
Code: 800A01AD
Source: MiscrosoftVBScript runtime error
I was on the phone with Quicken for about an hour and I’ve been on the phone for three hours with a really nice guy from Microsft. They’re having a hard time figuring this out.
Do you have any ideas? (I also had a script issue when I tried to run Wizard Compatibility function. I’m striking out all over the place! I’m like a traveler in a foreign country without a passport!)
June 23rd, 2007 at 1:47 am
Thank you!!!!!!!
July 15th, 2007 at 5:50 am
May sound like a silly question, but where do I get an “install disk” with r5 on it. I have my original Basic 2006, but that is probably R1.
And if I get a macbook, with parallels, just loading my Quicken there, will Intuit stop supported 2006 forcing me into Vista anyway?
July 18th, 2007 at 7:08 am
I can’t believe it! I’ve read several different post on numberious web pages…some worked, others didn’t.
Quicken 2007 Deluxe does not say it is compatable with Vista on the box. I checked Quicken web page FAQ and there should be no major problems, etc.
I installed and….NOTHING; Everything froze. I was able to install and run in less than 10 minutes with your instructions.
I am just afraid to complete an update.
July 21st, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Still can’t install or uninstall Quicken 2007 on Vista after trying EVERYTHING. It all started when the initial installation aborted. I’m now in a state where I can’t see Quicken to uninstall it in either the control panel, the Windows cleanup or the quicken cleanup. I have removed all quicken files/folders and registry keys, but I must be missing something, because when I try to install it always throws me into the Modify/Repair/Remove mode and then fails when I select any option. I’ve even tried disabling services with no success. I also tried installing Q2004 and then uninstalling … don’t have Q2006 or Q2006 to try.
Someone suggested trying it in safe mode, but the Windows Installer Service apparently isn’t running in Safe mode; is there a way to make this work, and if so, is it likely to help with the Quicken problem?
Desperate, but not willing to reinstall Vista yet!
August 2nd, 2007 at 6:14 am
When I get quicken to install I get to the registration prompt and as it tried to connect it gives me an error that it cannont connect to the internet and that I need to go into the “Tools” Preferences, Privacy Tab and change it to Overide Cookies. And when i follow those directions Quicken still does nothing has anyone had this problem and if so how did you fix it? I am getting very close to just buying MS Money. Thanks for any help that you can offer.
August 11th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
I’ve had similar problems. Have a new laptop with Vista Home Premium, and installing Quicken Home and Business 2007. A straight install using the “Run as Administrator” worked to install Quicken, but attempting to install the updates manually using the same approach failed at Rev 2 and then Quicken wouldn’t open other than a brief welcome flash, then nothing. Used the standard Windows uninstaller to uninstall Quicken as I couldn’t get it open to uninstall. Tried to use the special uninstaller tool referred to in the earlier posts but apparently the standard Windows installer had already done the job.
What finally worked was installing my older Quicken (Deluxe 2005), not opening the installation, then immediately installing Home and Business 2007 (for both installs I opened the folder and selected the Install.exe file, right clicked and selected ‘Run as Administrator’ option).
Upon completing the Quicken Home & Business 2007 installation, I allowed the program to install the updates, using the same right click to ‘run as administrator’. It took a very long time (well over a half hour) to install, and there were a lot of messages that Quicken was not responding, but eventually it finished and now all seems OK.
August 16th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Hi everyone,
I had a go on the suggested steps above with no luck…I tried to install 2003 Quicken small business to my Vista business, but it just prompts: abnormal error interuption..Does anyone know how I can go through this?
Many thanks
Von
August 24th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Thank you thank you thank you.
I was convinced that with no uninstall, I would have to buy ANOTHER copy of the damn software that was Vista compliant.
Keep on . . .
August 26th, 2007 at 1:04 am
As a long term happy user of Quicken 2000, and now a frustrated user of 2007 on a second PC with Vista, life would be wonderful for Vista to handle the old version, I guess life is not that simple.
If I restore from the old PC with XP the currencies default to a different currency, I am also able to restore from Vista to the older version.
Is this progress?
August 26th, 2007 at 1:06 am
As a long term happy user of Quicken 2000, and now a frustrated user of 2007 on a second PC with Vista, life would be wonderful for Vista to handle the old version, I guess life is not that simple.
If I restore from the old PC with XP the currencies default to a different currency, I am also not able to restore from Vista to the older version.
Is this progress?
August 26th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Everyone…I’ve got it …!!! The ealier version of Quicken, mine is 2003 small business has already worked perfectly on Vista :))…haha..don’t have to buy another version of it…many thanks anyone..
What I did wrong was not to open (when Quicken had already been installed, it created a shortcut, and from there also, we have to right click and run as an administrator…and bling bling bling..it works perfectly)…
THANK YOU EVERYONE AND GOOD LUCK..
August 27th, 2007 at 6:34 am
I’ve got it as well, who needs 2007, it gave me all sorts of issues with vista. I am not tecnical but my old 2000 version would not run/open on vista, so I put the disk in again and opened up the CD in my computer, clicked on an install icon and whoosh it was done.
I am living again
August 28th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
You pegged it. I was so frustrated I went out and bought Quicken 2007. With your help (and because I am so pissed at Quicken for their lack of real help), I can get my $30 bucks back. Think I’ll move to another money manager…
September 6th, 2007 at 8:47 am
I installed Quicken 2007 without a hitch, and it seems to work pretty well except I can’t set up one-step update because it won’t accept my vault password even though I know it is correct.
Here is an interesting thread that suggests that Quicken updates, especially R4, are problematic in Vista and NOT to install it.
http://www.ntcompatible.com/Quicken_2007_c12787.html
September 14th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Your step by step help, including adding the Windows Install Cleanup so I could uninstall Quicken from the first time, was 100% perfect. It’s sites like this, and people like you that help me keep my sanity when it comes to Windows Vista. I have had nothing but problems with it. Vista NEVER should have been released to the public in this condition. Stupid Windows…lol Anyways, THANK YOU!! for your help. Good Karma for you
September 25th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Yay!!!!
You helped me with what Quicken couldn’t do.
They had me download this other set of uninstallation programs which did not work and then left me with no more responses to my e-mails.
One important thing that you left out. When updating, you may get a message that says “NOT RESPONDING” but don’t give up. Let it run. This happened to me twice but in the end it all worked like a charm.
Thank you again!
This was so easy a Caveman could do it!
October 13th, 2007 at 6:57 am
Hi,
Thank you for the great info. With it, we managed to get Quicken 2007 Premium to install on Vista. But both one button update and Quicken software update (from Help) caused hang ups. The quicken update died toward the very end and even deleted the qw.exe.
Our computer with Quicken and XP died but the hard drive is fine so we use it as an external drive. Then my wife suggested to try to run it off the usb drive, and it worked! I couldn’t believe it! Then we went ahead and copied everything from Program files\quicken (on the external usb drive) to our Vista computer and everything worked!
So the last resort for some of you might be trying to install Quicken on a XP machine then copied the directory over.
October 29th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Thanks for being there when I needed help the most - great information - very much appreciated.
Thanks again,
George
November 6th, 2007 at 7:29 am
Prior to reading this post, I installed successfully Quicken 2007 H&B on a new Dell 1330 laptop with Vista. However, when I went to download the R5 update, the computer hung-up and of course - I shut it down. After reading this post - I was able to successfully clean up the disk, re-install quicken 2007H&B (it did not take as long as what is described) and then manually downloaded and installed the patch. It worked perfectly.
All I can say is THANK YOU!!!! This is a big relief!!
November 6th, 2007 at 7:37 am
I did have the computer hang-up while installing the update. DO NOT stop the update (even if it shows the program as not responding) - just be patient and let it run its course. Quicken does have some info on its site now (still not as clear as this site):
https://quicken.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/quicken.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php?p_sid=275vY2Qi&p_lva=&p_li=&p_faqid=5707&p_created=1170449627&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MjEmcF9wcm9kcz05NCw1NTAmcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PTIuNTUwJnBfY3Y9JnBfcGFnZT0xJnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9dmlzdGE*
November 24th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Hi,
thanks, this helped for Quicken 2003.
But, when I started, if I tried the option of “i have old files to migrate” (forgot the exact wording) it would hang. If I started as a new user, then later on opened the file, it worked fine.
December 6th, 2007 at 8:36 am
I tried several times to install Quicken 2006 on Vista Home Premium the way you described. I got it to work without installing the updates.
Thank you for the information.
January 16th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Thank You for your clear and easy to follow directions, “Installing Quicken on Vista”.
I worked for hours and ‘none’ of the other web options were successful for Quicken 2007.
I have been using Quicken since it ‘first’ came out in the early 80’s and ‘never’ had an install program when either updating to the following year or when transferring to another Microsoft OS.
I purchased Quicken 2008 and am now quite hesitant to install it, even tho it reads Vista compliant.
Has anyone ran into any problems with Quicken 2008 on Vista?
January 17th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Thank you, thank you, thank you, I have scoured the internet for 3 days,I have been running Quicken 98 for as long as I can remember, that programme has been used on all my computers using Windows 98,2000 and XP and always ran well despite its age. Then came my new laptop with Vista already installed and I was gutted when it would not load.Thanks to you all my accounts are safe and sound and I do not have to face learning how to use a new system and lose the use of all my previous records.Now Intuit no longer has an English version of Quicken I did not want to use $ signs and non english date formats. I am so pleased you were able to put my ancient version on life support!
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:11 am
Many thanks as quicken no longer available in the UK this was becoming a pain and the original programme is ideal and we have some small club accounts which we would have lost.
Thanks again
Michael Allen
January 31st, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Hey guys thanks a mill got quicken 2004 working on vista. I was totally desperate and became suicidal after trying MS money plus ( awful ).
Followed the set up instruction as recommnded by the main man here but kept getting error messgaes about this and that dll file missing. SO connected my large USB storage device to my old pc and copied all the files in the quicken directory, the whole lot, into the quicken directory on the new pc and then rebooted the machine and started the program as administrater and WHALA it worked and no probs yet. Hope this feedback helps some other soul.
February 8th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Brilliant Advice!
Tried my Quicken 2005 on my new PC loaded w/Vista and it kept failing. Couldn’t find a way around it so I have to do my finances on my kids PC running XP.
Then I stumbled accross this advice.
YOU’RE the BOMB!!
All done and success!! Quicken 2005, w/o selecting update option during install, runs on Vista. Where most things don’t. Bad Bad Microsoft!!
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 18th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
I just stumbled over your advice while looking up what Quicken products are compliant with Vista. I have Quicken 99 (yeah - go way back since have not seen a need to upgrade it until now when I entered the Vista world).
And most happy to say your advice worked even with this circa Windows 95/98/NT (anyone remember NT?)product. Worked like a charm!
Thanks very much
February 19th, 2008 at 11:01 am
How do I install Quicken 2000 so that it will work on Vista?
March 1st, 2008 at 6:21 pm
After days of beating my head on my desk, I finally cleaned up what I had tried to install and got Quicken 2007 on my Vista platform. Thanks soooo much!
Am now loading Release 5, which is where it crapped out before. Maybe I should have waited to thank you!
March 4th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Manny many thanks. Just ooaded my Quicken dlx 2000 on Vista. Works a treat. Simple for even a novice like me. Thanks again
March 4th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Many many thanks. Just loaded my Quicken dlx 2000 on Vista. Works a treat. Simple for even a novice like me. Thanks again
March 17th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Thanks very much, I was just on the verge of buying microsoft money when I found your site. Followed your instructions and installed Quicken 98 with year 2000 update onto vista. Thanks brilliant
March 27th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
The cure for me using Quicken Premier 2007 in Vista was to keep the data file at eight characters or less with no special characters. Before, I could not even rename the file inside Quicken nor could I open Quicken without manually finding the data file. Sometimes, the qw.exe launcher file would stay open even after I had shut down down Quicken and I would have to go into Task Manager to shut down the launcher manually, or else I couldn’t open the program. I changed the name of the data file on my XP machine, then transferred it to my Vista computer. I haven’t had any trouble since.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:17 am
Thank you SO MUCH for this easy to follow advice. After loading the program I got a message saying “You must have NT. SUR Gold version 1381 to install” I scouted around the web, couldn’t find the answer and clicked the cancel button, Quicken appeared on my desktop and I’ve been using it without any problem
May 14th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I tried to install Quicken 2001 on Vista while logged on as administrator. The install went fine until it started checking for installed components. It never stopped checking and never finished the install. Is there any way to abort the check for installed components and proceed with the installation?
May 31st, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Nope. I can’t seem to get as far as the uninstallation of Quicken using the Windows Install Cleanup tool. I followed the advice above and ensured that I was logged in as administrative USER (there’s only me on the comp so I’m pretty sure I’m it) but Quicken simply wasn’t on the list of stuff I could remove with the tool. Is there another way around this? I sure wish I could be one of you guys who’s sorted this out because I’m in the UK too where they discontinued Quicken, but I’ve still got ten years of accounts on it and haven’t got time to learn a new program and find out how to be able to still use all those accounts. Help!
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:15 am
Would using one of the commercially available uninstall applications get me out of this mess?
June 26th, 2008 at 6:47 am
I still have Quicken 2000 Deluxe with update 8 and got it to work with Vista Home Premium. It is a 16 bit application that runs in the NTVX sandbox. To install, don’t let the autorun start, instead choose to view the files: right-click the INSTALL.EXE file and Run as Administrator. During the setup select custom install and deselect install of everything except Quicken, e,g, IE4.0. If you have update 8 then install that afterwards, again Run as Administrator. For the shortcuts that appear on the desktop right-click and select properties and then the Compatibility tab and tick the Disable desktop composition, or you’ll likely have rendering problems. I reverted back to desktop theme of Vista Basic instead of Aero because of the annoying switching between these modes when Quicken is run. Copy your backed up data files over the default location of c:\quickenw or wherever you put Quicken. This is like the Ford Model T of the motor world but it’s a good workhorse and never gives me any trouble.
June 28th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Thank you so much for these directions. When I first tried to install Quicken 2007 on my new HP it installed fine, but it hung in the update portion. After several hours with HP we actually reset the entire computer since nothing else worked. I reinstalled Quicken without updating.
Unfortunately today I had a senior moment and clicked on update. Bad choice.
Fortunately I found your directions, downloaded and uninstalled Quicken and reinstalled without updating. Voila! You are a life saver.
July 22nd, 2008 at 8:59 pm
I first installed Quicken as an Administrator on my brand new PC. I also created a separate non-administrator User account (I don’t know why) where I ran my applications. I later made this my Administrator account and deleted the original one. This is when Quicken stopped working for me. I followed your advice and that on the Quicken site, even using RegEdit to remove every trace of Quicken from my computer. Nothing worked. So today, I created a new Administrator account and reinstalled Quicken. It runs now from both accounts, and I’m keeping both this time.
July 29th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Thanks…another save. Did as you suggested and finally got the 2007 disc to load the Quicken software. But the upgrade to R5 was another story. Way to make that work was to pull the upgrade file manually down from the Quicken site and then Run as Administrator after, thanks to this site, having been able to install the original R2 program.
August 10th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Thanks much for yet ANOTHER save!!!!! I have been trying to run my Quicken 2000 (which works great for my needs) on my new Vista Home laptop. I did get it installed ok and it would run with my restored file from my old laptop. However, I couldn’t get it to Backup properly on my new laptop. It couldn’t see the C: drive where I save my Backup - and then copy it to a CD-RW and another networked computer.
I wasn’t going to go with full use of Quicken on the new computer until I could figure out how to make a backup - just in case. The tip to ‘right click on the icon and then selecting “Run as Administrator” saved my bacon. It saves the backup file and it is visible with Windows Explorer - it wasn’t before….
YAAYYY - I don’t have to go out and spend more $$s on a new Quicken!!!!
August 10th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Thanks much for yet ANOTHER save!!!!! I have been trying to run my Quicken 2000 (which works great for my needs) on my new Vista Home laptop. I did get it installed ok and it would run with my restored file from my old laptop. However, I couldn’t get it to Backup properly on my new laptop. It couldn’t see the C: drive where I save my Backup - and then copy it to a CD-RW and another networked computer.
I wasn’t going to go with full use of Quicken on the new computer until I could figure out how to make a backup - just in case. The tip to ‘right click’ on the icon and then selecting “Run as Administrator” saved my bacon. It saves the backup file and it is visible with Windows Explorer - it wasn’t before….
YAAYYY - I don’t have to go out and spend more $$s on a new Quicken!!!!
September 30th, 2008 at 9:17 am
I struggled for hours trying to figure out why it wasn’t working and trying to uninstall it. Then I stumbled across this. I followed what you said and it worked perfectly. You are fantastic and just wanted to say thanks.
October 8th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Hi Have been reading abt how Val and others got their Quicken 2000 up and running — presumably by using the
“Installing Quicken on Vista” dated Feb 22nd 2007. I have tried to follow the instructions and on inserting the install disc, all I get is Do you want to install or Run — no sign of a Cancel button so can’t even go to No2 — Any suggestions Keith
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:41 am
Have used Quicken since it was sold on floppy disk and 2001 meets all my needs. I’m in the UK and was thinking that I would have to import a copy from the the USA. You have just saved me $60 !! Thanks. I saved my last backup to a stick drive. This loaded fine but the back up from my external drive gave corrupted data I was ÂŁ55000 overdrawn !
Many thanks !
November 14th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Have Quicken Premier 2006, This did the job.
Thanks
November 20th, 2008 at 2:52 am
Hi, Do the same rules apply for using Quicken 2000 deluxe in the UK on Vista? Many thanks for your help!
Peter
December 14th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
I’m having a lot of trouble getting Quicken 2007 to connect with the Internet and download my financial data. I have the firewall turned off and it still doesn’t work. Quicken is also added as an exception even. Any ideas?
December 30th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
No problem installing Quicken 2001 on Vista. But how does one get rid of the nag screens asking if you want to register and asking about web connect. I’ve tried to register via the Internet…even with proxy settings in place, to no avail. Does anyone know how to tweak the reigstry for this?
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:13 pm
I used you procedure to install quicken 99 on my new vista 32 bit laptop. I was able to install the program but after restoring my data I am unable to open the program to see the data. I go to file/open and it doesn’t seem to know what to use to open it. Any idea’s
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Ok, I got Quicken 99 installed on my Vista 32 bit machine and my data restored. When I open the program it opens to my home page but only the first account is displayed. I have to go lists/account then click the home(picture)button. Then all of my accounts are displayed. Anyone have any idea what I need to do to get the program to open with all of my accounts displayed right off the bat?
Thanks,
Jim
January 4th, 2009 at 10:31 am
I loaded my Quicken 2001 de Luxe ok onto my new Dell PC with Vista. It funcions perfecly well but just will not print any invoices.Can anybody help pleeease
January 4th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
FYI-After successfully installing quicken 99 on my vista machine I had the problems listed above in this thread. I did a lie chat with Quicken and they told me if I bought Quicken 2009 Deluxe or above it would convert all of my data fine.
I bought Quicken 2009 Home and Business as I needed the business upgrade. It flawlessly found my data and converted it first to 2003 and then to 2009 all automatically and the program works perfect. Well worth the upgrade in my opinion. You can buy Quicken Deluxe 2009 for around $30 bucks. I think it’s a good move.
Jim
January 7th, 2009 at 10:51 am
I just tried to install my Quicken99 per your instructions and received a message “…not compatible with my machine. …32bit…64bit…check with software provider…” I know Quicken is not going to help me. Can you? I have a new HP PC with 64bit. Thanks. Janice
January 18th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I am having trouble installing my Quicken 2001 deluxe on my vista. Will your above steps work? or Would the Quicken Deluxe be able to convert my data automatically? Please e-mail me back and let me know before I screw up my computer. Thank you for your help. As you can tell, I am a computer phoebic.
March 9th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Jim (and a few others) said ” …I have to go lists/account then click the home(picture)button. Then all of my accounts are displayed. Anyone have any idea what I need to do to get the program to open with all of my accounts displayed right off the bat? …”
I’ve had the same problem for more than a year, and just 5 minutes ago discovered that the problem is apparently related to something about window sizing.
Instead of the workarounds reported thus far, just do one of the following
* Stretch your window just a smidgen, or
* Click the resize button at the top-right corner. You might have to click it twice.
Now then, someone else help me out. I have Quicken 99 Basic R1. I managed to update to R3, but R4 keeps conking out on me. (As I understand it, R5 could only be done online and you can’t do it anymore.)
What did R4 fix? Anyone else have problems or success in installing it?
Thank you, Rose
March 9th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Was the Quicken 99 Basic R3 upgrade ever available as a downloadable exe file? If yes, anyone know where to find it on the Intuit web site (the exact URL)?
Rose
March 12th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Hi! After reading through here, I was really hopeful about installing Quicken 2001 Deluxe on my new laptop running 64-bit Vista. But alas, I got the “not compatible” error message. Do you have a solution?
Thanks!
Janay
April 7th, 2009 at 7:50 am
I run Quicken98 r4 and Quicken 2007. I have been able to install both on my Vista64 system. I had to download Quicken99 trial version from Quicken.com before I could install Q98-32. I would like to use the Q99 because of its updated dating system, but the trial version has expired and now won’t load. Any suggestions? BTW, I don’t use Q2007 because the files are huge compared to the Q98 file size.
May 21st, 2009 at 7:55 am
Hi I have been running Quicken Deluxe 2000 (UK version) on Win XP Pro for many years and want to install it on a new notebook that is running Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition. I tried to install by right clicking on the install.exe application file and then selecting ‘run as administrator’ but I get an error message
‘The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re running. Check your computer’s system information to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher’
I’m guessing there is no way round this as Quicken 2000 is so old but I do also have an unused copy of Quicken 2002 in my office. Does anyone know if that would be any good vs 2000 and more importantly if I could use it on a notebook running Vista Home Premium 64-bit?
Thanks for your help.
June 14th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Just successfully installed ye olde Q98 on my new Vista by following your instructions. The bad news is my backup floppy disks (!) were 5 months old (duh!) so a couple of tedious hours ahead, plugging in the recent transactions… Ah well…
Many thanks for the advice - like others here, I’ve got used to Quicken (had it since 1993 - originally a DOS version!)
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:00 pm
I have just completed a Vista reinstall after a partition blunder - my fault!
Now I cannot run Quicken 1998, it was running perfectly ok last week with the exception of a display problem. I overcame that by using the Maximise button just once for the session.
I’ve had this program since Windows 95; SE; now Vista.
It’s a brilliant program but I just wish I could get it going again - I will!!!
Thank you for all your advice,
Colin
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:01 pm
I have just completed a Vista reinstall after a partition blunder - my fault!
Now I cannot run Quicken 1998, it was running perfectly ok last week with the exception of a display problem. I overcame that by using the Maximise button just once for the session.
I’ve had this program since Windows 95; ME; now Vista.
It’s a brilliant program but I just wish I could get it going again - I will!!!
Thank you for all your advice,
Colin
September 1st, 2009 at 8:25 am
The instructions worked perfectly with Quicken 2000. The only slight problem I have is the first window does not build completely. It only slowly comes to life when the curser is moved over it or a new window in Quicken is started.