Vista program manager

[jascat]

Firstly, I am not to computer literate (to old).
I have bought a new compiuter with Vista basic.
I am trying to download Quicken from a CD I have with various programs on it.
Usually I just double click on the program & it instals. Vista refuses to do this & tells me to launch the program from windows program manager. Can anyone tell me how to find this?

 

[PC eye]

Your main problem is Vista compatibilty depending on which release you are trying to install there. Quicken's own support site recommends the latest 2008 release as well as pointing out problems seen with the previous 2006 and 2007 releases at https://quicken.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/quicken.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=4370

There's a download link on the page seen there for the latest release.

 

[jascat]

Thanks for the info. I think my version 1996 is to old to work. I will buy a new one.

 

[PC eye]

1996! Try running that old a version on an old boat achor seeing 95 or 95 PLUS! Yet surprizing some old dos stuff will run in a virtual window.



That is a very old 8bit dos game running on a virtual dos drive there. But that doesn't see the typical Windows installer being a dos program where you simply ran into the compatibility issue right away.

 

[terii]

Speaking of old, I am running Quicken 2001 on Vista Ultimate. It works quite well.

 

[PC eye]

That's due to being 2000/XP compatible written for NT cored versions. The 1996 release was for Fat16 95. In that regard desktop apps are worlds apart. For going out and buying a new software Vista compatibility and planning ahead for Windows 7 would be the thing to look at with the 2008 version.

 

[weistar]

The compatibility of the Vista system is not good

 

[jascat]

I also read that the data I have backed up from my old Quicken, may not restore on the new version.

 

[PC eye]

Unfortunately that's typical when going from one version written for 9x and the next for XP and Vista. There's a large gap for many softwares.

Converting the files into a more standardized format and then opened with the newer version shoud get you past that. There's one older article on how to go about diong just that seen at http://www.ext.vt.edu/news/periodicals/fmu/2002-04/quickendata.html

 

[jascat]

Thanks for the info. I had XP on my last computer & the old quicken worked on it, albeit with one error. The dates had difficulty with years 2000+.
The old data is not critical, so if need be, I will start from scratch.

 

[jascat]

Also found this :-

https://quicken.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/quicken.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=572

 

[PC eye]

What the newer version will do is simply convert the original file into the newer format. The advice on the other link advises first making up backup copies before proceeding there.