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I am still running a very very old Dell laptop (probably around 2005 vintage) with Win XP in order to keep going with a fantastic home & small business software called Quicken. It is great for personal financial records, tax calculations, share and mutual fund tracking, budgets etc. I originally had the 1994 UK version, upgraded to the 1998 UK version and was sent a free Y2K update just in case. I came across an unused 2003 version when clearing an old office in London but the key does not work and there is no longer any support to fix that problem (despite my best efforts across numerous forums).
The Dell laptop no longer has a functioning battery nor cooling fan so may need to be retired sooner rather than later.
Win7 had a set of downloadable MS tools to be able to run XP applications - sadly Win11 does not appear to provide this facility.
I am gradually migrating applications and transferring data from both the Dell XP laptop and an HP850 Win7 laptop and would appreciate any advice or help in setting up Virtual Mode to run Quicken
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Hi anMacK57
This is Tamal trying to answer your question
you can try compatibility mode of the program by right clicking on it.
Right-click the program then "Properties"
go to compatibility and run this program in compatibility mode for
"Windows XP Service Pack 3"
Click on "Apply"
you can try this compatibility settings if the program has an installer (before installation) or the exe file you open to run the program if it is already installed.
Unfortunately Tamal - the compatibility mode is very unstable, it does not solv the problem fully, I use it all the time and every single program has issus opening latter. Are you a microsoft source, I wounder if we could get a better fix from Microsoft - tons of software that has been useful before is now rendered obsolete because of poor functionality implementation from Microsoft .
Tamal
Many thanks for suggesting that solution.
I had never thought of using compatibility mode before.
I ran the MS Compatibility Troubleshooter and it seemed to figure out what the solution needed to be.
I migrated the last version of my WinXP Quicken data onto the new Win11 laptop and opened that data file in Quicken - SUCCESS !!
When I open the Quicken application the 'home' screen is slightly unstable - one or more of the side function QuickTabs may be missing but I can recover those by clicking in their approximate position and generally everything else seems to be fine
