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Summary: terrible buggy product
Review: after running this program on Windows XP for about a week, i finally gave up and shipped it back for a refund. most of the functionality works fine, but EVERYTIME i try to go into the Investing Center or the Loan areas, it would CRASH on me. and i mean, EVERY TIME!!!! little things like the Mileage Tracker are nice, but honestly, anyone who can create a simple spreadsheet in Excel will find this of zero-value. i've been a loyal Quicken user for about 4 years now, but this is the worst product i've seen from them. its no wonder Intuit has a 60-day unconditional money back guarantee; i think their strategy is sell as many buggy products as they can and hope that people don't return them. well, i want my money back!! i just downloaded the trial version of Microsoft Money 2002 and am keeping my fingers crossed as the reviews for that product aren't exactly glowing either...
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Summary: terrible buggy product
Review: after running this program on Windows XP for about a week, i finally gave up and shipped it back for a refund. most of the functionality works fine, but EVERYTIME i try to go into the Investing Center or the Loan areas, it would CRASH on me. and i mean, EVERY TIME!!!! little things like the Mileage Tracker are nice, but honestly, anyone who can create a simple spreadsheet in Excel will find this of zero-value. i've been a loyal Quicken user for about 4 years now, but this is the worst product i've seen from them. its no wonder Intuit has a 60-day unconditional money back guarantee; i think their strategy is sell as many buggy products as they can and hope that people don't return them. well, i want my money back!! i just downloaded the trial version of Microsoft Money 2002 and am keeping my fingers crossed as the reviews for that product aren't exactly glowing either...
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Summary: Terribly Buggy and Hard to Use
Review: I don't know how Quicken ever became the leading personal finance program with a program this hard to understand and with clear bugs (atleast on Windows XP). I'm GREAT with computers, but this program constantly stumps me with an interface that is FAR from intuitive.What's worse, I suddenly experienced a serious bug in the program that wiped out my customer list! Quicken does NOT OFFER ANY FREE SUPPORT, EVEN IN SITUATIONS WHERE THERE IS A BUG IN THE PROGRAM. And the online chat support was a disaster. In order to follow the support persons instructions, it closes the chat window and you have to start from scratch. Huh? AWFUL!! Quicken should be ashamed and people should stop buying the product.
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Summary: Pretty Useless Update
Review: I have used Quicken for years and am totally addicted. If you don't have Quicken at all, then I highly recommend this product. If you have Quicken Deluxe 2000 or 2001, though, this update is basically useless. It even has most of the same bugs. I could find very few new features. Most of the listed improvements are really just links to the Quicken website. The business features are incredibly weak. For example, you can only print an invoice with pre-set columns. There is no way to add an item description or change the format in any way. Overall, Intuit didn't put much effort into this update.
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Summary: Window XP Conflict
Review: I purchased a new computer with XP after a house fire and installed Quicken 2002 Home & Business after having been a faithful user since Tobias stopped making MYM. Once installed, my computer would not shut down. Bad computer, I thought, so I bought another with XP. Installed Quicken and same problem. Called local computer whiz to fix problem. No luck. Returned computer and bought another brand, now three different brands of computer with XP. Quicken still corrupted the system. I recommend avoidance of use of this product with XP as neither Quicken nor Microsoft seems to be aware of this problem and no fix has been offered. I am in the process of switching to Money. Good luck, George Hutchison, MD
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Summary: Window XP Conflict
Review: I purchased a new computer with XP after a house fire and installed Quicken 2002 Home & Business after having been a faithful user since Tobias stopped making MYM. Once installed, my computer would not shut down. Bad computer, I thought, so I bought another with XP. Installed Quicken and same problem. Called local computer whiz to fix problem. No luck. Returned computer and bought another brand, now three different brands of computer with XP. Quicken still corrupted the system. I recommend avoidance of use of this product with XP as neither Quicken nor Microsoft seems to be aware of this problem and no fix has been offered. I am in the process of switching to Money. Good luck, George Hutchison, MD
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Summary: very, very difficult
Review: I used one of the very first Quicken products, and was thrilled and delighted at the user frendly product. Im sorry to say that this product is very fustrating to use. I have spent the last three days trying to figure out what I thought were very simple tasks, for example imputting accounts payable, which I still have not figured out. I plan on returning this product and I will never purchase a Quicken product again.
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Summary: Who's in control here? Quicken or You?
Review: I've been using Quicken since the late 80's and was always a big fan of Intuit's products until this version. While the program offers all the essentials that other programs like Peachtree offer it is constantly trying to up sell you to other Quicken (Intuit) products and services. A major drawback to this program is how it prints invoices and statements. If you want to send your customer a nice PDF of your statement or invoice too bad you can't. If you want to send it via e-mail it has to be processed through Quicken which strips out your logo (if you've added it) and you can only send it as an HTML or TXT version then it launches your default e-mail program. What's that you say? You use an online fax service or you fax through a fax program? Well too bad. You can't do that through this version of Quicken and I'm not sure other versions let you either. I thought well then there must be a way I can just save the invoice or statement as a file and then process it any way I want to (e.g. PDF, image file, fax document etc) but no way this program won't let you do that and they won't even address the issue in their help. I had to find out by combing the web and finding other users having the same problem. Another very annoying product feature is that they've set up defaults to try to get you to have Quicken go online and download your various bank account data from company websites from bank info to creditors. It constantly tries to get you to use Quicken to process these online services. There are a myriad of options and preferences you have to find and deselect so this can take a long time because they hide lots of preferences. It's been months already and I still cant' figure out how to get the darn alert message at the beginning to stop alerting me that Quicken's WebConnect feature is not setup to get all my data. It also defaults to send "anonymous" user information via the web back to the Quicken developers at Intuit. I say before you get sucked in check out alternatives. The only one I know of though is Peachtree because I hear the one from Bill Gates is even worse.
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Summary: Quicken 2002 Home and Business...Well....
Review: If you are a currently using Quicken Deluxe and you keep track of payments then I would highly recommend you purchasing this edition over the Deluxe version. Quicken 2002 Home and Business has some nice features such as the ability to keep track of customer payments, and your payments to vendors, which is highly useful if you have a good deal of customers. The area where I use this feature is in keeping track of my Ebay auctions. With the Home and Business Edition, I am able to create customizable invoices for my customers, and record when and how much they pay me. This is worth the price. If you do keep track of these kinds of records, then I think that you will find that the Home and Business Edition will be right for you to help organize your financial matters. I do also highly recommend users of Quicken 2000 or earlier to upgrade to a 2002 version. This version is much easier to use than some prior versions have been, and setting up accounts is a breeze with Quicken 2002 Home and Business. You are also able to maintain your accounts a little easier through the "Getting Started" process, which can be repeated multiple times unlike previous versions. You will also find that creating budgets, and other planning documents will become simplistic. You will wonder why you didn't try this out earlier.
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Summary: Who's in control here? Quicken or You?
Review: Quicken manages our life, and by tracking where we spend and save, we know where to go on vacation. We believe this beats Money. And any version 2000 and up is compatible with websites.
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