Any quicken specialist here ?

[lstratos]

Friend is using quicken 2002 on a pretty new pc.. its not a core gamer machine but a core 2 quad.. The problem is quicken is very sluggish, I recommend maybe upgrading to 2010 version.. but I dont know how the file are stored and if really running a new version with hopefully better codes will help... any ideas or suggestions... is there like a file optimizer or something.. i google around and it seems the files get larger but no one really has an solution

 

[Miramonti]

Quicken seem to get slower and slower every year.

It might help holding down the control key and selecting 'validate'...it does a pretty deep validation...or pretty deep something.

 

[FoxFifth]

Since the friend is using Quicken 2002 the data file may have 8 years of data or even more if a previous version was used and upgraded. I very significantly speeded up an old version by reducing the data file size. In my current 2008 version this is done on the File Menu -- File Operations -- Year-end Copy. This gives the ability to archive older transactions (prior to a date you pick) to a separate file. Doing this makes it a little less convenient to go back to look at older transactions but they are still available and it made a significant difference on speed for me.