Please can you help me - I have an old programmes called Quicken 98 and my new windows 7 laptop won't let me load it on - how can I get this programme on my machine?

I too wanted to use my Quicken 98 on my new computer.  Even though I had the installation CD, I absolutely could not get it to install from the CD.  I even tried something called DosBox to no avail.

With my old computer and new computer running side by side,

I found the file called "QUICKENW" on my old computer and copied the entire folder and it's contents onto a flash drive.

Then, I put the flash drive into the new computer, and moved the "QUICKENW" folder to

"C:\Program Files (x86)"

When I tried to run the program, (C:\Program Files (x86)\QUICKENW\QW)  I got an error message saying the computer needed the file "IPROF32.DLL"

Again I returned to the old computer, and found this file in the "C:\Windows\System32" folder.

I copied it to the flash drive and then copied it to the "C:\Windows\System32" of the new computer, but I still got the error message.  So, I copied the "IPROF32.DLL" to the "C:\Program Files (x86)\QUICKENW" folder and VOILA, the program opened up!  (you have to double click the application file named "QW".  Later, I created a shortcut on my desktop, to this file for easy opening.)

I got more error messages about missing DLL files, so if you try this route, then go ahead and search and copy all of these files from your old machine:

IFPROF32.DLL

Q_ENCUTL.DLL

Q_ENCLIB.DLL

QCON32.DLL

I pasted them all into my "C:\Program Files (x86)\QUICKENW" and things are working.  I haven't yet tried printing, and as someone else before me experienced, the icons on the tool bar are gone, but my program seems to work.

I also made a fresh Quicken data backup from my old machine, and then put it on the flash drive, and used FILE>Restore Backup File, to get all of my data current on the new machine.

Good luck.  This aint easy!

I have been running my Quicken Deluxe 98 on my Packard Bell PC and it has worked exremely well.  I recently purchased a Dell Laptop (Inspiron 15R) wondered (like you), whether I was going to be able to use it anymore.

But I am pleased to say that it is running like a dream!  What I did was to transfer the application (I no longer have

the Q98 disc) to a flash drive.  The I plugged in the flash drive to my laptop and that was that!  I am thrilled to be able to effortly continue to use it.  

Only one drawback, though - it will not run a printer from it. Porbably the fault is trivial and somebody will tell me how to overcome it!

I recently used the helpful advice in this forum to set up Q98 in W7 64-bit and I'm so grateful. But I just noticed PaulVernon's posting of April 6 remains unanswered so I wonder if you got past the registration problem. I have reinstalled Quicken several times over the years and the solution, where there's no longer any online access (or a  helpine), as in the UK, is to choose "by telephone" and use the 16-digit number you used before. Now I don't know where I got that 16-digit code from because it's not on the packaging, so I imagine I may have been given it at a time when there was online access or support. Anyway, hope you've got one to try.

I then bypass all the setup wizardry and do a File>Restore Backup using the Qdata file from the previous installation.

(Yes, no one outside the UK understands that nothing has ever bettered Quicken for home accounts, and it's so frustrating that it's been withdrawn from the market. I've tried several alternatives and they just don't cut the mustard.)

Same problem - did some Googling (or should that be Binging?) - read somewhere else, so no credit to me, but one suggested solution was to run a Virtual PC product (free download from Microsoft) under Win7, and install Windows 95/98/XP in there, and run Quicken 98 inside that. This Virtual PC solution might well work for even earlier versions of Quicken (bootjangler ???)

Not necessarily elegant, but workable (assuming you have legit licenses for the Win95/98/XP, of course...).

As an aside, I have been running Quicken 98 on an XP (home, e.g. 32-bit, SP3) machine for many years, with no issues....

Update: I've got Quicken98 working natively under Win7 64-bit:  the autorun installer appears to be 16-bit (or at least has an issue running, and just bombs out) - but as mentioned by Mogojohn, the CD contains both 16-bit and 32-bit installers separately, in folders on the install CD called "Win31" and "Win95" accordingly; so what worked for me was to navigate to the "Win95" directory, and run the "setup.exe" found in there. One other thing: Quicken, by default, installs it's application files in "C:\quickenw" - so suggest you choose a "custom install", and change the destination folder from "C:\quickenw" to "C:\progra~2\quickenw" (the "progra~2" being the DOS name for "Program Files (x86)", the correct program files folder for 32-bit applications under 64-bit Win7) - and also uncheck "install IE 3" and "install IE4"......

Hope that helps.

P.