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JB
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Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:
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A few seconds after Quicken loaded my data file it quit responding as
indicated by the Windows XP Task Manager.
I replaced the entire c: partition which contains Quicken as well as the OS
with two earlier versions and the result was the same for both. The problem
exists with my backup Quicken file as well.
This seemed to be time-related so I reset the date in the BIOS to 31 Oct and
Quicken functioned normally. I then set the BIOS date back to today (1 Nov)
and the problem returned.
The only change I made to the computer before this problem happened today
was to load the trial version of MS Money. I ran a test and then removed it
from the machine. I made no hardware changes.
Years ago there was malicious code circulating called Halloween Virus but
the symptoms are different than what I am seeing. Of course there could be
an entirely new Halloween virus. At any rate I am in the process of a
complete virus scan now and have no hits yet.
One more thing that may or may not bear upon the problem. Somebody or
something has sent me about ten emails with a 12 byte zip file over the last
week. I did save one copy and looked at it in zipped form with a hex editor
one time but did not execute it...at least not knowingly. This may or may
not bear upon the problem. I'm sure that was malicious code but harmless if
not run (I hope).
Is anyone else having this problem or is it peculiar to my machine?
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Hammer
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Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:
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Installed R3 on notebook and desktop running Q2006P. Both installations of
Quicken lock on startup after displaying the One Step Update Screen. No
other changes made to systems other than installing R3.
<pjhartman@gmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Not seeing the problem here -- Q2006D still functioning as it was
yesterday.
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pjhartman@gmail.com
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Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:
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Not seeing the problem here -- Q2006D still functioning as it was
yesterday.
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Hammer
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Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:
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Follow-up: Changed the system date back to 10/31/2005 and Q2006P runs
normally.
Houston, we have a problem........
"Hammer" <whammer@att.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Installed R3 on notebook and desktop running Q2006P. Both installations
of Quicken lock on startup after displaying the One Step Update Screen.
No other changes made to systems other than installing R3.
pjhartman@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Not seeing the problem here -- Q2006D still functioning as it was
yesterday.
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pjhartman@gmail.com
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Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:
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I don't have Q2006 configured to run One Step Update at program start.
To test if this was the problem, I configured Q2006 to run the OSU at
start.
It didn't make a difference; my copy is still functioning. |
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Hammer
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Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:
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Tried resetting date back to 11/1/2005. Quicken hangs.
Task managers shows qw.exe is using 95-99% of cpu cycles.
XP Home
512MB memory on desktop, 1GB on notebook
72GB free disk space
Norton Anti-Virus on desktop, McAfee on notebook
<pjhartman@gmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | I don't have Q2006 configured to run One Step Update at program start.
To test if this was the problem, I configured Q2006 to run the OSU at
start.
It didn't make a difference; my copy is still functioning.
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pjhartman@gmail.com
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Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:
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I can only speculate that it's a difference between the Deluxe and
Premier versions. Have you tried disabling the One Step Update at
startup (with your CPU date 10/31) and then setting the date to 11/01? |
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Margaret Wilson
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Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:
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Wow, this is quite disturbing. I'm running QP2006 R3, but I do not have OSU
configured to run when Quicken starts. I leave my computer on 24/7 and
reboot periodically. (Yesterday I happened to reboot.) I do run OSU
manually as my first step when I run Quicken each morning. So far, all is
working fine. PC's clock is set to correct date and time, EST.
Regards,
Margaret
<pjhartman@gmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | I can only speculate that it's a difference between the Deluxe and
Premier versions. Have you tried disabling the One Step Update at
startup (with your CPU date 10/31) and then setting the date to 11/01?
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Hammer
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Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:
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I set date back to 10/31 and set the Online Update NOT to run on startup.
Set the date back to 11/1. Quicken still hangs on startup with Online
Update on Startup set to "Off".
"Margaret Wilson" <twokatmew@nospam.msn.com.invalid> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Wow, this is quite disturbing. I'm running QP2006 R3, but I do not have
OSU configured to run when Quicken starts. I leave my computer on 24/7
and reboot periodically. (Yesterday I happened to reboot.) I do run OSU
manually as my first step when I run Quicken each morning. So far, all is
working fine. PC's clock is set to correct date and time, EST.
Regards,
Margaret
pjhartman@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I can only speculate that it's a difference between the Deluxe and
Premier versions. Have you tried disabling the One Step Update at
startup (with your CPU date 10/31) and then setting the date to 11/01?
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Mike
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Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:07 am Post subject:
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On the Intuit KB there is an article 3795 that may have the solution. I
would post the full link, but the new Intuit KB does not (yet) allow
direct links to the articles. Just search on the article # and it'll
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JB
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Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:07 am Post subject:
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That fixed my problem also. Thank you to all who checked and researched
this problem.
In my case, I do have over a dozen capital gains but they are all zero
except for one which was 27 cents. The latter is the result of a mistake I
made but the rest of them arise from the way I handle treasury bill sales.
JB
"Hammer" <whammer@att.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Brilliant! Problem solved, at least for me. I'm suprised that Quicken
couldn't handle the relatively small number of investment transactions I
have.
Thanks Mike!
The solution is, from Quicken's Support site:
"Quicken has an alert that will notify you if your capital gains for the
year are above or below a certain dollar amount. The alert is only active
from November 1 through December 31. If you have a large number of
investment transactions, Quicken may freeze or lock up while calculating
the capital gains for this alert. To resolve this issue, turn off the
alert in Quicken.
1.. Exit Quicken.
2.. On the Microsoft® Windows® taskbar double click the time.
3.. Change the date to October 31, 2005 and click OK.
4.. Open Quicken and select the Tools menu > Setup Alerts.
5.. Click the + next to Investments and then the + next to Capital
gains/losses.
6.. Click the Cap. gains for the year check box to clear it.
7.. Click OK.
8.. Exit Quicken.
9.. On the Windows taskbar, double click the time and set the system date
to the current date. Click OK
10.. Open Quicken."
"Mike" <MPBrede@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On the Intuit KB there is an article 3795 that may have the solution. I
would post the full link, but the new Intuit KB does not (yet) allow
direct links to the articles. Just search on the article # and it'll
come up.
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Andrew
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Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:07 am Post subject:
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Hammer wrote:
| Quote: | Problem solved, at least for me......
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| Quote: | To resolve this issue, turn off the alert in Quicken.....
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This hardly 'solves' or "resolves" the issue. It merely provides a bypass
to the program avoid performing a function that is implemented incorrectly,
leading to an unexpected and desired outage.
What's the joke, you tell the doctor when you hit your head, it hurts, and
he tells you don't hit your head??
Work w/Intuit on 'fixing' it!
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Regards -
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Hammer
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Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:07 am Post subject:
Re: Quicken 2006P Went Catatonic on ! Nov |
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Brilliant! Problem solved, at least for me. I'm suprised that Quicken
couldn't handle the relatively small number of investment transactions I
have.
Thanks Mike!
The solution is, from Quicken's Support site:
"Quicken has an alert that will notify you if your capital gains for the
year are above or below a certain dollar amount. The alert is only active
from November 1 through December 31. If you have a large number of
investment transactions, Quicken may freeze or lock up while calculating the
capital gains for this alert. To resolve this issue, turn off the alert in
Quicken.
1.. Exit Quicken.
2.. On the Microsoft® Windows® taskbar double click the time.
3.. Change the date to October 31, 2005 and click OK.
4.. Open Quicken and select the Tools menu > Setup Alerts.
5.. Click the + next to Investments and then the + next to Capital
gains/losses.
6.. Click the Cap. gains for the year check box to clear it.
7.. Click OK.
8.. Exit Quicken.
9.. On the Windows taskbar, double click the time and set the system date
to the current date. Click OK
10.. Open Quicken."
"Mike" <MPBrede@gmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | On the Intuit KB there is an article 3795 that may have the solution. I
would post the full link, but the new Intuit KB does not (yet) allow
direct links to the articles. Just search on the article # and it'll
come up.
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Bob Weissman
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Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:07 am Post subject:
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In article <raS9f.6550$ex4.2184@fe08.lga>, Andrew <andrew@jkl.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Hammer wrote:
Problem solved, at least for me......
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To resolve this issue, turn off the alert in Quicken.....
This hardly 'solves' or "resolves" the issue. It merely provides a bypass
to the program avoid performing a function that is implemented incorrectly,
leading to an unexpected and desired outage.
Work w/Intuit on 'fixing' it!
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I agree. Bugs need fixes, not arcane workarounds. If it happened on
November 1, who's to say it won't recur on December 1 without a real
fix?
Remember to report all Quicken bugs at http://www.quicken.com/voc/ .
- Bob |
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Hammer
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Wed Nov 02, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:
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| Quote: | The problem has to do with calculating capital gains for the year and
comparing them to a user supplied amount. So I suspect that the problem
has more to do with the number of securities you own, the number of sales
you had this year, and possibly the size of your price history file (.qph)
... coupled with some bug and/or poor choice of approach for making the
calculation. And if you had some corruption in the price history file,
that could contribute as well.
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John Pollard
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I'd like to say I own a boatload of securities with tons of transactions,
(mostly reinvested dividends!) - but unfortunately I invest only in mutual
funds and have a total of only 15 different funds. Transactions are nominal
on the funds and monthly on the money market accounts, so the number of
transactions or the number of securities should not be the source of the
problem.
The price history file is about 5MB in size. Some of the funds, and prices,
date back to 1993 when I first started using Quicken seriously. (The first
entry I have in Quicken is dated 1988).
I've never used "Year End Copy" because one of the benefits of Quicken to me
is having all of my financial records in one place...including records from
prior years. To do otherwise seems to be a waste of time and effort.
"John Pollard" <invalid@invalid.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Hammer wrote:
My Qdata file is about 17MB. I didn't know there was a limit???
There isn't; but the problem doesn't have to do with the size of the
Quicken fileset.
The problem has to do with calculating capital gains for the year and
comparing them to a user supplied amount. So I suspect that the problem
has more to do with the number of securities you own, the number of sales
you had this year, and possibly the size of your price history file (.qph)
... coupled with some bug and/or poor choice of approach for making the
calculation. And if you had some corruption in the price history file,
that could contribute as well.
--
John Pollard
First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com
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