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From: mickey on 22 Apr 2010 11:20
Newbie here. LT quicken user, Q2006 Deluxe.

Just received the notice for updating yesterday and said I had until the
end of the month when ability to DL data would stop. By yesterday PM I
had lost that ability.

Did some price checking and spent some time reading a LOT of user comments
on the 2010 version. From what I read, it almost seems universal that
users do not like the new version.

The only thing I'm currently using Quicken for is to track investments and
all I need from the net is price quotes/price-history. Looking over the
features it appears one needs to move up a grade from deluxe version to be
able to use prgm for tracking investments. Is that correct?

With MS Money gone, is there another prgm that's worth using that handles
investment tracking?

TIA

--
Mickey
From: Margaret on 22 Apr 2010 12:27
mickey wrote:
> Newbie here. LT quicken user, Q2006 Deluxe.
>
> Just received the notice for updating yesterday and said I had until the
> end of the month when ability to DL data would stop. By yesterday PM I
> had lost that ability.
>
> Did some price checking and spent some time reading a LOT of user
> comments on the 2010 version. From what I read, it almost seems
> universal that users do not like the new version.
>
> The only thing I'm currently using Quicken for is to track investments
> and all I need from the net is price quotes/price-history. Looking over
> the features it appears one needs to move up a grade from deluxe version
> to be able to use prgm for tracking investments. Is that correct?
>
> With MS Money gone, is there another prgm that's worth using that
> handles investment tracking?

Remember, most people who make the time and energy to comment online
usually have problems with the product.... I've been using QP2010 since
it came out, and I really like it. It ran fine on WinXP SP3, and I've
now upgraded to Win7 64-bit, and it runs even faster. (I think the 8GB
RAM and i7 core processor helps. ;-)

Even though I've paid for Premier, I believe other more active investors
have said the Deluxe version is just fine. I do agree though, that
Intuit makes it sound like you need Premier if you track investments.
AFAIK, that's not true.

Regards,

Margaret

--
http://twokatmew.smugmug.com
From: wbertram on 22 Apr 2010 13:53
On 4/22/2010 11:20 AM, mickey wrote:
> Newbie here. LT quicken user, Q2006 Deluxe.
>
> Just received the notice for updating yesterday and said I had until the
> end of the month when ability to DL data would stop. By yesterday PM I
> had lost that ability.
>
> Did some price checking and spent some time reading a LOT of user
> comments on the 2010 version. From what I read, it almost seems
> universal that users do not like the new version.
>
> The only thing I'm currently using Quicken for is to track investments
> and all I need from the net is price quotes/price-history. Looking over
> the features it appears one needs to move up a grade from deluxe version
> to be able to use prgm for tracking investments. Is that correct?
>
> With MS Money gone, is there another prgm that's worth using that
> handles investment tracking?
>
> TIA
>
Look at http://www.fundmanagersoftware.com This program works very
well.

Of course, Q2006 also works very well for this, and it is already set up
with your investments. Prices can be downloaded from the internet and
imported into Q.

There is an active thread this past week on programs to use to download
prices from the internet. I personally use Yahoo Finance to download
prices to a .csv file which can be imported into .
From: John Pollard on 22 Apr 2010 15:06
Margaret wrote:
> mickey wrote:
>> Newbie here. LT quicken user, Q2006 Deluxe.
>>
>> Just received the notice for updating yesterday and said I had until
>> the end of the month when ability to DL data would stop. By
>> yesterday PM I had lost that ability.
>>
>> Did some price checking and spent some time reading a LOT of user
>> comments on the 2010 version. From what I read, it almost seems
>> universal that users do not like the new version.
>>
>> The only thing I'm currently using Quicken for is to track
>> investments and all I need from the net is price
>> quotes/price-history. Looking over the features it appears one needs
>> to move up a grade from deluxe version to be able to use prgm for
>> tracking investments. Is that correct? With MS Money gone, is there
>> another prgm that's worth using that
>> handles investment tracking?


> Remember, most people who make the time and energy to comment online
> usually have problems with the product.... I've been using QP2010
> since it came out, and I really like it. It ran fine on WinXP SP3,
> and I've now upgraded to Win7 64-bit, and it runs even faster. (I
> think the 8GB RAM and i7 core processor helps. ;-)
>
> Even though I've paid for Premier, I believe other more active
> investors have said the Deluxe version is just fine. I do agree
> though, that Intuit makes it sound like you need Premier if you track
> investments. AFAIK, that's not true.

I concur: Deluxe will handle investments, and I don't see any general
deal-breaker problems in Q2010. But ex-Money users will find Quicken
takes some getting used to.

[Q2010 R9 is due out shortly; which should take care of some of the
outstanding complaints.]

--

John Pollard
news://<YOUR-NNTP-NEWSERVER-HERE>/alt.comp.software.financial.quicken
Your source of user-to-user Quicken help


From: mickey on 22 Apr 2010 15:07
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:20:45 -0600, mickey <micekey(a)somewhere.com> wrote:

> Newbie here. LT quicken user, Q2006 Deluxe.
>
> Just received the notice for updating yesterday and said I had until the
> end of the month when ability to DL data would stop. By yesterday PM I
> had lost that ability.
>
> Did some price checking and spent some time reading a LOT of user
> comments on the 2010 version. From what I read, it almost seems
> universal that users do not like the new version.
>
> The only thing I'm currently using Quicken for is to track investments
> and all I need from the net is price quotes/price-history. Looking over
> the features it appears one needs to move up a grade from deluxe version
> to be able to use prgm for tracking investments. Is that correct?
>
> With MS Money gone, is there another prgm that's worth using that
> handles investment tracking?
>
> TIA
>
Thanks to those that have replied. Nice to know latest Deluxe version can
still handle investments. I posted here as I'm aware that people with
problems/complaints are more likely to post to avg "user reviews/comments"
than experienced users regardless of product. Three decent replies so
far. :)

As I'm running XP SP3, was nice to read latest version still works well
for that OS.

Thanks again.

--
Mickey

Though many years of practice and experience, it now takes almost no
effort to get tired. :)
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