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Installing Quicken 2002 on a Windows7 Home Premium SP1 machine

Anonymous
2015-01-11T16:58:52+00:00

My husbands Vista Machine is playing up and needs to go in for service. He has used Quicken 2002 for 12 years for personal and small business accounting and wants to keep using it.  I have offered to put it on my HP Pavilion dv6 which is a Windows7 Home Premium SP1 op system. I have tried copying the quicken disc contents to my hard drive, changing the programs compatibility mode to xp SP3 and running as an administrator but it still doesn't work. I have seen old posts where people say they have it working under my set up but without a full explanation. Any ideas anyone please.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-01-13T10:29:04+00:00

    Hi LemP,

    The Ebay 'purchase' was for advice (as I had originally thought and not the CD) but it was an excellent purchase as following his intitial advice I bought a download for Quicken 2004XG and with Dennis's help we have been able to install it on both a HP Pavilion windows 7 home premium sp1 laptop and on a Vista Home Premium sp2 PC. Quicken seems to be working perfectly and we have only had to tweak our original saved reports a little on Windows 7 to get them to work. Otherwise we would have lost Quicken as our old laptop running 2002 is falling apart. Our other ideas would not have worked as we could not have installed 2002 on any other machine or possibly not even the same repaired laptop as the registration would not have worked.

    We have always kept check of our personal and business finances since 1998 using Quicken (15mb data) and together with Excel spreadsheets were able to plan a financial scenario that has proved very beneficial. I totally recommend financial planning to people and programs such as Quicken are essential. 

    The US abandoned Quicken in the UK completely apart from the last 2004XG.  

    Thanks again for your help and immediate response to my query. I hope other UK people find this useful and I recommend the Ebay link to buy advice from Dennis who worked for Intuit. 

    Best wishes to all, GabriellaS

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-01-11T19:38:46+00:00

    And this is the error message I get if I try to install from disk or use the first method you have linked to even if I change the compatibility to XP SP3 (or even SP2) and set myself as administrator. Other people have managed to do it but I don't know how. Although we are in the UK and do not have support we still use the program and would like to keep using it, just as it is, without any further upgrades. We have 13 years of valuable business data that we use in our reports.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-01-11T19:22:59+00:00

    I have tried the second method downloading both the 2003 and 2004 files. Each gets to the same point where they convert the files but then say 

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-01-11T18:30:31+00:00

    Hi LemP and thanks for your quick reply. Yes, I saw that page and worked through the first method exactly as given but the same error message was produced. The second 'converter' method requires you to have Quicken on your machine which I haven't as I cant install. Maybe my husband needs to try this on his Vista machine that runs Quicken 2002 before we take it in for repair/scrap.  He wants to continue with the same version so its not the ideal solution. We are currently trying out an old XP laptop of my sons which may be the only answer if I can't install it.

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  4. LemP 74,925 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2015-01-11T17:43:30+00:00

    Did you see this --> https://qlc.intuit.com/questions/65787-have-quicken-2002-with-a-new-computer-running-windows-7-only-use-it-to-keep-track-of-personal-finances-which-is-not-much-more-than-keeping-track-of-expenses

    Which leads to this --> https://qlc.intuit.com/questions/153278-upgrading-from-qw1999-to-qw2011

    The second link includes detailed steps that allegedly got Quicken 99 working on Windows 7 x64.

    At the bottom of the second link is an even simpler method ... but I don't know if the Quicken 2002 CD has the same installers as the Quicken 99 CD (I actually probably have both Q 99 and Q 2002 CDs buried under a pile of computer equipment somewhere ... ).

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