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?

Anonymous
2010-01-14T21:21:45+00:00

Please can you help me - I have Quicken 98 and it won't load on my new Windows 7 laptop - I realise its a very old programme - but it is brilliant and I use it every day - I have the data stored on an external drive - I really need help with this please

ps My cassells dictionery disc won't load either - why do's this happen when the systems change - it really isn't fair

thank with kind regards

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Anonymous
2010-01-15T16:19:14+00:00

Today, 64-bit processors have become the standard for systems ranging from the most scalable servers to desktop PCs. The way to take full advantage of these systems is with 64-bit editions of Microsoft Windows products.

The 64-bit systems offer direct access to more virtual and physical memory than 32-bit systems and process more data per clock cycle, enabling more scalable, higher performing computing solutions. There are two 64-bit Windows platforms: x64-based and Itanium-based.

x64 solutions are the direct descendants of x86 32-bit products, and are the natural choice for most server application deployments—small or large. Itanium-based systems offer alternative system designs and a processor architecture best suited to extremely large database and custom application solutions.

64 bit is a way of manipulating data and if something is currently 16 bit there is no way for you to upgrade them to 64. That is the job of the author of the product. You will have to contact them.

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-09-15T15:19:50+00:00

    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.

    Can you say more about how you got this to work? I tried it (before I saw this post) and I get an error message saying it's the wrong version. I'm running Win 7 Professional 64 bit.

    Thanks.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-07-29T10:00:47+00:00

    What a great answer.  I have been searching for this solution since I first installed Win 7 last year.

    It works a treat.

    D

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-02-16T11:15:17+00:00

    Quicken 98 has difficulty running in XP, let alone Windows 7. Your install disk (if a CD) should have both 16 bit and 32 bit versions, but you probably wouldn't get either version working on W7.  If you can get it working on another computer you could export the data as you suggest, or perhaps you could copy a Report containing your register entries and paste them into Excel.  If you export to a QIF file there are Excel macros around that will convert QIF to Excel.

    I can't help with Cassells Dictionary

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-02-15T19:36:49+00:00

    I also have this problem and have struggled to get some files back from an external drive by running as 'administrator'.

    However, it's not complete and the compatability troubleshooter isn't helping.

    I think my Quicken is 32 bit, rather than 16 bit. Does that make any difference?

    I think I might be completely scuppered, and Quicken is out of support anyway.

    The only thing I can thionk is to get hold of an XP machine, load Quicken, load the backup files and then export into

    Microsoft Money. Then either use that, or look for another money manager that Microsoft Money can export in to.

    I've lost 12 years of data. Nice.

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