Please can you help me - I have an old programmes called Quicken 98 and my new windows 7 laptop won't let me load it on - how can I get this programme on my machine?

Hi Cheeky question I am also using quicken 98 deluxe version on win7 64bit and now wroking fine...but since hard drive crashed and had to re install quicken i have lost registration key and cant find anywhere...dont suppose you have any ideas where to get one from??? many thanks eddy (******@thelwall.co.uk)

Hi there, from the above very helpful solution I can get the Quicken 98 program to load thru W7 now, great, BUT, I try to Register and the 0800 phone number is dead and going the Internet route, the Registration program doesn't find my ISP provider. Ok so it tells me I can use the program for another 12 times.

When I press File, a warning message pops up and tells me 'You're about to enter data in a Quicken file. If you want to handle your own data, you should be creating a new file'. Problem here is that I cannot click out of the 'error message' and either have to delete the Quicken program thru the Task Manager or Control Panel.

I got so frustrated that I was prepered to buy a new Quicken program, but it is not available in the UK and in the Quicken web site you can only pay/download if you have a US/Canada address.

Hope you can help. Frustrated of UK

I have had the same problem installing Quicken 98 on Windows 7 64-bit after upgrading from Vista.  After much investigating and reading I finally managed to get it running.  Don't know if it will help, but here's what I did.  BTW this only works if you have Quicken 98 installed sucessfully on another machine.

Step 1. Download and install a later version of Quicken from here:  http://quicken.intuit.com/support/articles/getting-started/upgrading-and-conversion/3838.html  or here :http://web.intuit.com/support/quicken/docs/qkn_w2002.html

I used 2002.  You will probably have to run using compatability mode (XP SP2 or Vista SP2) and possibly as administrator to install.  You also will probably need to make sure no other programs are running and disable your Anti-Virus program.

NOTE: Don't open or convert your data to the new version format!!!  Or if you do, make sure you have a backup of your 98 data files.

Step 2. After seeing that it installs and only if you have Quicken 98 running on another machine, navigate to the folder it installed to. Probably C:\Program Files (x86)\QUICKENW.

Step 3. Delete all the files within this folder, but don't delete the folder itself.

Step 4. Go to a machine where Quicken 98 is sucessfully installed - (I used my desktop running XP SP3).  Navigate to where Quicken is installed there.  Probably C:\QUICKENW. Copy the contents of that folder to a usb jump drive.

Step 5. Now copy the files from the jump drive into the folder on your Windows 7 pc (from step 3).  Then click on your icon from the interim program or the QW.exe in the folder and see if Quicken 98 opens.  It worked for me!

Step 6. You can then rename the icon from the interim program to Quicken 98.

Warning - Some of the associated programs with the interim program will now be missing and won't work, including the uninstall.  You might also want to clean your register with a program such as CCleaner.

This isn't the cleanest way to get Quicken 98 working, but if you love this version like I do, it does allow you to continue running it in Windows 7 64-bit.

I aslo found this link: http://web.intuit.com/support/quicken/docs/qkn_win98.html for a Quicken 98 32-bit, but it wouldn't install for me in Windows 7 64bit.

I did find my Quicken 98 CD would install on a netbook running Windows 7 Starter 32-bit.

You might have to minimize/maximize the program each time to see the entire screen, but that's the only bug I've seen so far and I had the same issue when it was running under Vista.

Good Luck and I hope this helps!!!  Long Live Quicken 98 Deluxe!

I  too am running Quicken98 under Windows 7 64bit.

"I can't seem to do the backup". Quicken98 was  designed when drives were smaller and gets confused by the larger modern ones. I created a tiny partition on the hard drive and gave it the letter Q (as I had to in XP). Works fine.

I do have a coupla issues though:

• The register doesn't load automatically (as it used to in 98SE and XP) when the program is started.
• The icon bar doesn't work properly for me so I've turned it off. The symptom is that the bar shows but it's empty. Clicking where an icon should be makes it visible.