Good product - Bad install I've used Quicken for years. I love it for ease of balancing my account at the end of the month, and getting an overall view of my finances.
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However, the last 2 times I've upgraded the install has been a nightmare. This time Quicken Deluxe 2017 required an older version of MS runtime (4.61?). Had to uninstall the current version (4.7) and install an older one. Spent 2 hours getting it all straight. You would think the installation process for such a reputable piece of software would go smoothly. Verified purchase: Yes Condition: New. Buggy, typical offshore support; long hold, cost more in wasted time than saved This is for me the replacement to my 2014 Deluxe.
That one I replaced because it was unable to recognize that financial institutions might have passwords longer than 11 characters! Required a cumbersome and unclear workaround guided by the financial institution making best effort to help its customer overcome the poorly engineered software. So I figured while I was choking on this issue, may as well upgrade to the current in case there were other problems when I upgraded, which there were. None of this is news to anyone familiar with Quicken by the way.
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Problem is, you start using Quicken, get all your financial data loaded in, and then you're stuck with them, because it's more cumbersome to switch vendors than to slog through their mediocre product. And they know it. And there's th erefore little incentive for them to work hard to fix the problems. They have a captive market. The 2017 version, as typical, duplicated transactions on the conversion. Then the menu would have the option to delete greyed out for whatever reason, randomly.
Then I would highlight a transaction, go to delete it, and the highlight would jump to a different, random transaction, just as it was deleting. So not only deleting a wanted transaction, but it happened so fast you couldn't see which was being deleted. I had to manually re-reconcile all affected accounts with online or printed statements from financial institutions. What a load of crap. To add insult to injury, the software regularly launches popup windows trying to sell you other Intuit products, even though you're supposed to be able to turn them off. Of course, if you do, they magically get reset, typically when software automatically updates. How convenient for Intuit.
Verified purchase: Yes Condition: New. Quicken, Tried and True I've been a Quicken Deluxe user for many years, typically upgrading to a newer version every three years. Although the software has a number of different financial management tools, I use the checking and savings account registers to manually keep track of my bank accounts and I download account information for two credit card accounts from two different banks. Quicken Deluxe 2017 installed on my Windows 10 system and connected to all of my accounts seamlessly. For the features that I use, I've only noticed some cosmetic changes. The software is reliable and it does what I bought it to do. Verified purchase: Yes Condition: New.
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