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So many problems with Quicken!

January 3rd, 2010 at 10:34 pm

After years of hearing my dad talk about Quicken, I decided to take the plunge today and check it out.

HORRIBLE. It froze on me twice (I've never had this problem with other software I've installed on my laptop) and it turns out not all of my information can even be added. My husbands ING 401k with his company and my Deferred Comp or Pension has no way to connect to Quicken. As far as Quicken is concerned we have no retirement.

Since we just financed a car and refinanced our mortgage I don't even have that information yet to enter into the program (this is not Quicken's fault but still frustrating as I only have a fraction of my financial information at hand).

I think I was better off using my excel file (AKA The Spreadsheet of Life). My husband is laughing at me but I swear, it has everything i need (except for automatic updates, but typing those manually hasn't killed me yet).

Oh well...

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2 Responses to “So many problems with Quicken!”

  1. lizajane Says:
    January 3rd, 2010 at 11:54 pm 1262562891
    1262562891

    I think they all have a learning curve, so be patient! I use Microsoft Money, and never relied on automatic updates, so it's no big deal that it's not supported anymore. I still love it though.

  2. homebody Says:
    January 3rd, 2010 at 11:57 pm 1262563039
    1262563039

    I have used it for about 10 years and rarely have problems. Did you get the 2009 version? I am still using 2006. If I was better at Excel I might use it, except that I don't keep a checkbook register because it is all on Quicken.

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