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Summary: What a shame
Review: As a long time Quicken user who upgraded from 2001 to 2004, I cannot believe what has happened to the program and the support for Quicken. I must agree that there are many bugs and I have lost and have had corrupted all of my investment and personal financial information. I have been online with little success from people who don't really understand. They apparently are using scripted responses. My spouse is a CPA and we have used Quicken for many years. We have now tried using Microsoft Money 2003, but the reports are poor and it is challenging to use in some areas. I suggest using older versions of Quicken. If I could only easily reenter all of my information to Quicken 2001!!
Intuit did similar tricks with Turbo Tax last year. I agree with previous reviewers about their "forced" use of online services. I would be interested to hear from knowledgeable software people to see if they add cookies etc. to our computers as they did with Turbo Tax 2002. Good Luck
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Summary: A horrible piece of software!
Review: This is one of the worst pieces of software I've ever purchased! New features have in recent versions have been minimal with even major bugs not being fixed. I installed this version and was not able to import my previous data, nor run with the sample data for more than a few minutes without a GP. I called tech support but they wanted to charge for support and they have no online support. I've since returned the software.
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Summary: Guaranteed to loose data if you upgrade...(confirmed by co)
Review: Good program, but *watch-out*
You *will* loose any un-accepted transactions if you upgrade. Unfortunately, Quicken does not check for this or warn you. I just confirmed that this is true and reproducible and that they do nothing to prevent or warn about this. For reference, my Intuit support chat session ID for 3/25/2004 10:05 PM EDT is 201086. So be sure to accept all downloaded transactions before you upgrade (which does an uninstall of your last verison). I have reported this as a bug to Intuit and hope for a fix for this data loss bug for all other upgrade users.
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Summary: negative star rating
Review: Like many reviewers here, I wish there were a NEGATIVE
rating star for total junk like this. Also like many
reviewers here, I am a longtime Quicken user, since the DOS
days. Please do NOT purchase Quicken 2004!!! Aside from the
forced-upgrade thing, this new version has a klunky interface,
numerous bugs (like wrong balances after data conversion),
and all the "special offer" messages suggest Quicken 2004
contains more spyware than a recent Outlook virus. I have
un-installed and am now evaluating both GNUcash and Money.I repeat: DO NOT BUY QUICKEN 2004 !!!!
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Summary: I like it... No apologies!
Review: I can't understand the bad rap Quicken 2004 is getting here. I have used Quicken for almost 20 years and this upgrade was both smooth and easy. I really like the new look. More importantly, Quicken 2004 converted my 2001 information flawlessly, and I was up and running in just a few minutes. Sure, the opening screen is very different, but you have to expect that with an upgrade. It took a matter of minutes, not hours to become familiar with the new interface. I give it 4 stars; the fifth star would have to be earned by the VP in charge of Intuit's almost non-existent tech support staff. I said earlier I have been using Quicken for almost 20 years, but I gave up on its tech "support" more than 15 years ago. Too bad, the program itself deserves five stars.
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Summary: No Import/Conversion
Review: Like many other users that have rated this product, I am a long time user of Quicken-9 years in my case with upgrades about every 2 years (Quicken Deluxe being the last one). Unlike others, I had no installation problems or problems with bringing in the data file from my previous version. I also haven't had any problems with crashes or "glitches" with the program, but to be honest, I haven't used it all that much since I found a certain feature to be unavailable with this version. I found out I am unable to export/download any transactions from my financial institutions into Quicken 2004-it is not supported. Previous versions have had the ability to convert files directly. My banking institution(s) do not convert data into qif files anymore, only MSMoney or csv format. After trying to find help/info on Intuit's websight with no success (I refuse to pay for tech support for a newly purchased product) I asked for help from my financial institution. Their reply: Quicken/Intuit started charging a substantial fee for using the latest download feature in Q2004. My institution decided the price being charged was "exorbitant" (their term) and decided it was not worth the cost. Also, Intuit was not going to release any conversion tools for converting MSOffice or csv files to Q2004 (unless you also had MSMoney installed on your computer). The solution offered by my institution for their customers who relied on Quicken was to provide a free copy of MSMoney to use for access to their accounts. Although not a fan of Money (I tried it once and wasn't impressed-especially when compared to previous versions of Quicken), I guess I'll have to make the change. I believe Quicken/Intuit will be losing customers over this.
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Summary: Fine by me
Review: Been a Quicken user since 1990, upgraded because of non support for Quicken 2000. I live overseas but still do the majority of my banking and investments in the US - so online capability is key. I was a bit afraid to upgrade but this seemed to be the better option than Money. So far everything is great. I downloaded the software - backed up my data (twice)- let the installer uninstall, install, and convert the data - and it works great. Even automatically went to the Fidelity site and set up all the details of my 401k. I have to get used to the new GUI, but it seems to be fine for me thus far. Time will tell, but 4 stars for me so far.
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Summary: Quicken Deluxe 2004
Review: Few problems so far, transfered my old Quicken data very well
Problems with internet connection (Walmart Connect). No other problems yet.
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Summary: Hate Quicken 2004
Review: For years I have entered at least 10 hours worth of data per month, and 2004 Quicken makes it MUCH more tedious. The interface is very non-intuitive and clunky, for example the shortcuts make no sense - press "Alt G" for "Securities Bought," or "Alt R" for Securities Sold. The hard to see cursor moves slowly through fields and gets stuck in awkward places making it difficult to enter data. Quicken 2004 is a huge step back.
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Summary: DON'T EVEN THINK OF BUYING THIS
Review: I've been using quicken for over 10 years. I recently tried to upgrade from the 2003 version. My data was corrupted and I had to reinstall the 2003 version to get my data back. If you have more than 7 years of data the coversion may be lost with the upgrade. Stick to the 2003 version and save your money. Intuit has absolutely no tech support so good luck trying to get help from them.
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