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Also, some keyboard shortcuts are now gone. There does not appear to be any way to customize the icons or keyboard shortcuts so that I have my most desired actions available in the account ledger. I am not happy with this version. I sent an email and the response I got from them was incorrect. After searching for various alternatives, both online and standalone, I ended up selecting Quicken Home and Business 2011 (being self-employed I need the business module). At first I was quite nervous about Quickens ability to load almost 10-years’ worth of history and be able to make sense of it. To tell the truth – it made me realize what an idiot I’ve been (possibly) spending as much as I have on things of possible useless value. So far it hasn’t really helped me reform immensely but somewhat I think. I would think that the English speaking market would be a large portion of their customer base. Obviously Quicken doesn’t agree.

Despite being a great tool which I have used for over a decade, I am surprised how little progress had been made over the years with this program. One reason I used to love Quicken for was to be able to download all transactions in over a dozen accounts (bank, cc, brokerage) with one click.

I don’t know why there were negative reviews here. This is also good for small business to see if you’re making a profit. This program cannot download bank transactions consistently. If you get one account working then all the other accounts will stop downloading transactions. They took the most useful feature out of the product. I remember when 2010 was being hyped, they showed this new Cash Flow panel with the IN/OUT/REMAINING concept, and I loved it.

In Windows 7, IE 8 will prompt you for changes to in-private filtering as well as firewall exceptions. In 1 situation, I used IE 8 for a manual download, it prompted a change in my “advanced firewall settings” under Windows 7, and voila!

I have everything on 1 page to start with. I can switch from one account to the next with one click. I shop at the same gas station all the time; Quicken never puts the correct listing on my gas charges. My home mortgage is never the same balance as it should be.

I downloaded it just fine. Read the file just fine (as one would expect).

That being said I had read the reviews of Quicken 2011 and was actually nervous about making the change seeing that many people had nothing good to say. I have to say though that I have converted all my accounts including checking, savings, credit card, 401k, and stock brokerage accounts with no problems.

Simplified, run your browser in the same permission level as whatever Quicken is running in. If you don’t know what the hell I am talking about, then you are likely running your default logon as admin, and you will never have an issue since all of your apps automatically have administrative privileges.

That being said the face lift on the new product is nice, the reports are good, but some tried and true features in 2008 are more difficult in 2011. CHEAP GYMS.