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Summary: Quicken 2002 Is Hands Down the Best!
Review: This piece of software is a jewel. I have had both Microsoft Money and Quicken and separate times and believe me I will stay with Quicken. For the people that are having all the errors don't just blame the software, stop to think that it may be your precious computer. I have not had one error, hiccup or anything else and that's running Quicken 2002 on a WinXP machine on a network. It works great. If you are someone that's looking between the different financial management software, look no further and buy Quicken.
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Summary: Don't waste your money
Review: This was the first and last version of Quicken I will use. To be honest, I've never used these financial tools in the past. My new computer came with a copy of Microsoft Money 2002 Deluxe and I started using it. The interface was easy to follow, and it came with a great help system that walks you through all of the features. So when I got of copy of Quicken through work, I decided to give it a shot as everyone always told me how Quicken was far superior to Money. They were wrong. In my opinion, Quicken 2002 is not even in the same league as Microsoft Money 2002. I put it through the paces and it fell short in every test. My online broker offered full OFX connectivity vs. downloaded QIF files and so I decided to use Quicken to download my transactions. For my mutual fund accounts, I couldn't pick the default cost-basis method of first-in-first-out ' Instead, Quicken made me select cost basis for every one of my 130 mutual fund transactions. Money prompted me the first time for cost-basis and asks me if I wanted to make that choice my permanent selection. Money just made it a lot easy for me to import all of the transactions from my broker. My overall impressions is that Quicken has kept its interface clunky and ugly to keep the old Quicken users happy while Microsoft not having the legacy issue has created a very nice user interface that is actually intuitive and just simply works better. In a nutshell, I would pass on this release.
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Summary: How anyone gets by without Quicken is beyond me
Review: I've used several older versions of Quicken and updating to this one was quick and easy. I just can't imagine in this day and age how anyone gets by without Quicken--it's fast and easy to use and accurate and produces great reports.
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Summary: Good software!
Review: I have evaluated other personal financial software, and picked this one. Simple to use, nice user interface. One thing I didn't realize is that to use on-line banking, YOUR BANK MIGHT CHARGE FEE, although they provide "internet" banking of their own for free.
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Summary: JUGMENT DAY
Review: I FOUND THIS PROGRAM TO BE VERY HELPFUL AND SYMPATHETIC TO MY DISABILTY,IN A WORD ADVANTAGOUS TO PC PEOPLE!
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Summary: Don't Buy it
Review: I am very computer literate, but have never used any of the computer-based money management software before. Having finally
decided to take the plunge and put all our finances on the computer, and figuring that Quicken was a well-known, well-respected name in financial software, we bought the Quicken 2002 Deluxe edition. Quite frankly, the program is awful.
It is extremely buggy which is bad enough, but there is VIRTUALLY NO USER SUPPORT!!!! In order to find out how to overcome the bugs in the software, you must pay [per]/min (plus your long distance charges) to talk to someone who likely cannot help you.
Unless you already know quicken and so don't need any help at all, I DO NOT RECOMMEND ANYONE BUYING THIS SOFTWARE.
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Summary: Not worth upgrading to
Review: I was previously running Quicken 2000 and loved it. I "upgraded" to 2002 hoping to get up-to-date tax information for tax planning and faster recognition of categories based on 2002's ability to recognize businesses. My recommendation to anyone with 2000 or 2001 is to keep what you've got. Here are my complaints. First, in order to install 2002 in the default directory, I had to uninstall 2000. The 2000 version was pre-installed on my computer, so there is no practical way to recover it. You can change the install directory, but I suspect that this will result in numerous conflicts and files not found. The program crashes constantly, although the number of crashes seems to decrease with use. You get bombarded with alerts and suggestions for scheduled transactions that must be cleared out one at a time (automated alerts is one of the features advertised in this version). Buy a book from Amazon.com, and the purchase will appear as an alert for the next month. I continue to get warnings that several accounts are past due, even though they are all up to date and have entries in the register. Several areas show some type of warning icon that I cannot get rid of. For example, I have chosen not to supply some information on my bank accounts to Quicken. The result is warning icons on the overview pages for the account. Planning, tax, and investment calculations appear inaccurate. I am also unimpressed by the Quicken's inability to handle more that one Flexible Spending Account. Finally, as other users have noted, you get bombarded with links for other Quicken services. The bottom of each page provides icons for these services, and I have not yet found a way to turn them off.
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Summary: Quciken Home & Business
Review: Being a first time user I found Quicken to be very difficult to understand and assumes everyone will use the complete online features to manage the home and business expenses, retirement and other accounts. I found it very difficult to download files from my financial accounts and import them in to Quicken. Also, when it asks you to set up your account (Online), you must know your service provider DNS, Proxy ID and security stuff. I am still learning it, it is not easy for those of us from the non-account world. Tks, AD
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Summary: Bugs in Quicken 2002 Deluxe
Review: While overall Quicken is still a superb financial tracking software package its tax section still leaves much to be desired. Their newest feature, showing the effects of altering the number of exemptions, is completely non-functional. After entering my information it estimated my current withholding at 3 times what it currently is and given the annual information entered stated I was entitled to a $15,000 refund (I wish). While I have been a Quicken user for many years, and will continue to do so, I have been and continue to be extremely disappointed with the tax management tools of their program.
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Summary: Best Upgrade For The New Year!
Review: I have been using Quicken since Windows 3.1 starting with the DOS version. Can't imagine going back to pencil, paper and a calculator. Quicken 2002 Deluxe is a welcomed upgrade on my 600 MHz Pentium III PC running Windows 98 SE . It installed and converted my files easily and flawlessly! After I registered online it downloaded and installed an upgrade without any problems. It integrates with Quicken's web site (...) very nicely, even with my slow dialup connection. It seems to be even easier to use than previous versions, even though it does more. I base 'ease of use' on how often I have to click on help to figure out how to use the program. Its interface is well laid out and easily navigated, although if you are new to Quicken it may seem a little overwhelming at first. It almost holds your hand as it walks you through account set up and some of the data entry. It even has a 'Quick Entry' feature that only loads your account register to enter just a few transactions. This is very convenient if you don't need the full range of Quicken tools. It can also track the stocks you are interested in and keep tract of your portfolio's current standing. Coupled with (...) researching stocks is much easier and offers a lot of help if you are new to investing. One thing consistent with all versions I've ever used, it does many more things than my finances dictate. To be honest, the only reason I upgraded is I just found out that Quicken 2000 Basic does not let you create savings goal accounts, which is one of my favorite features, but the Deluxe version does. I am very happy with my purchase and would strongly recommend Quicken 2002 Deluxe to everyone.
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