Quicken 2007 Forum

Executive summary:

Quicken 2007 online update works! But the installation process is complicated because Quicken refuses to be installed in a Win98 bottle, but IE is broken in a Win2k bottle, so there's a bit of trickery required.

Steps - fairly simple stuff, but please follow them CAREFULLY:

1. Create a new "win2000" bottle...
2. Install Quicken 2007 from CD via Applications -> "Install Software..." -> "Install Unsupported Software..."
   • You should see the Quicken 2007 menu - choose "Install Quicken"
   • This should install Quicken as well as IE6 and related components
   • BUT... IE6 will be broken and need to be reinstalled (see below)
3. Go to Manage Bottles -> Control Panel, choose "winecfg", and click "Launch selected item"
4. Select "Default Settings" and change Windows Version to "Windows 98", then click "Apply" and "OK"
5. Remove the following files from your c:\windows\system32 directory: msi.dll, msiexec.exe, rpcrt4.dll, rsaenh.dll, and rsaenhs.dll
6. Re-install IE6 from the Quicken CD via Manage Bottles -> Applications -> "Install Software..." -> "Install Unsupported Software..." -> "Choose Installer File..." and selecting the file "ie\ie6setup.exe" from the Quicken install CD
   • IMPORTANT NOTE: You MUST select "Reinstall all components"
   • If you are not prompted to reinstall all components, run through the IE installer a second time and you should get the dialog
7. Open the "user.reg" file for your CrossOver bottle in your favorite editor
   • On MacOS, this file is located in $HOME/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles/<bottle>/user.reg
   • On Linux, this file is located in $HOME/.cxoffice/<bottle>/user.reg
8. Locate the section titled "[Software\Wine\DllOverrides]"
9. Add "rsaenh"="native, builtin" to that section of the file, save, and exit
10. Run Quicken 2007: Register, update accounts online, etc.!

Whew!

I've successfully done the following on CrossOver 6.0.0 Mac:

• Upgraded my Quicken 2004 datafiles to Quicken 2007
• Registered Quicken 2007 online
• Updated multiple accounts online using One Step Update
• Online upgraded to Quicken 2007 Release R4 (from Release R2)

On this basis, I'm stamping Quicken 2007 with a silver medal.

Thank you very much!

I successfully used your steps in Crossover version 6.0.1 and have Quicken 2007 working, updating, and otherwise functional under Debian Etch, with a 2.6.18 kernel. The steps were about the same, but finding the proper "task" to complete a step was a bit different than described. I just kept searching in the general vacinity until I found something that looked like what you described and completed the step.

I still have difficulty with no text in the various control "button", making task selection a bit dicey. Any suggestions for a cure?

-Don Spoon-

Donald Spoon wrote:

I still have difficulty with no text in the various control
"button", making task selection a bit dicey. Any suggestions for a
cure?

Have you tried substituting another font for the "Tahoma" font as described in the Tips & Tricks section?

Which buttons in particular are missing text?

Thanks,
Jason

1. Yep... tried settomg "Tahoma"="Times New Roman" in the indicated file w/o any change. I still cannot see text in the selection buttons on drop-down menus (see #2).

2. I am missing ALL of the text in the selection buttons for drop-down menus. Things like "OK", "Cancel", and "Help". I see a few of the graphic icons but not many. I am missing all of the TITLE text on the Accounts menu on the Left side on my startup screen (Quicken Home Page). I can't see any text on the tabs along the top of the Home Page. There might be others I have not noticed (because I can't see them) 😉

3. I am using Debian "Etch" with KDE 3.5. I am using the default font settings in KDE. The fonts on all the KDE menus work AOK.

Yikes! Hmm...

My Linux test box is running Fedora Core 5. Since I've pretty much upgraded my box all the way from Fedora Core 1 and Crossover 3.x, I've lost track of which fonts I have installed.

I'm pretty sure that at some point I've installed the Microsoft Core Fonts via http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

Any other Debian users out there who can report success or failure with Quicken 2007 text ?

Thanks,
Jason

Here's an interesting tidbit of information:

I first used your instructions to substitute the "Tahoma" font with another font, and it worked correctly. I could see all button text, etc., and things were great.

Next, I followed your instructions to get IE6 working correctly with the Quicken update and registration process. This worked fabulously - I registered Quicken 2007 and can perform updates to my accounts. However, in the process, my text went away again!! I can no longer see the button text, as described in the previous posts here.

I am wondering: does the switch to win98 have something to do with it? The FontSubstitute key has "WindowsNT" in its path - is there a similar path that works for win98 bottles?

I am running Fedora Core 6 and Cross Office 6.0.1 Standard...

Thanks for all the help, and for getting this to work correctly!
-Nick

FYI: I switched from "win98" back to "win2000" for my Quicken bottle and could see the text correctly again. And my updates stopped working. :) I switched back to win98 to get updates working again. Maybe I'll run in debug mode to see what the error messages are, like you did when you first got this working.

Thanks,
-Nick

HA! Got it. Do your "Tahoma"="Arial" trick (or whatever font you choose). This will work for bottles set to "win2000." To get it to work in the Quicken bottle set to "win98", you also need to add tahoma.ttf in Gnome. (For KDE I assume this will work too). I also added tahoma.ttf in .cxoffice/win2000/drive_c/windows/fonts too, but that wasn't sufficient - I needed to add the font in my window manager as well.

Hope this helps, and thanks for the IE6 tips - my installation works great now! I am also advocating the app as silver, based on all this.

Heh - I'm a noob. Didn't know that "normal" users can't advocate. If I could advocate, I'd mark it as silver. ;)

Ok - sorry for the hundred posts here. It turns out my previous fix was unreliable - it worked some of the time. Grrr....

Here is my final suggestion, as I have it working 100% of the time now. Install the msttcorefonts via Jason's previous post. Then TAKE OUT the System.reg FontSubstitutions "Tahoma" line if you are still having problems in your win98-ified Quicken bottle. Additionally, forget about copying the tahoma.ttf file into your drive_c/windows/fonts directory.

Again, my final suggestion, if you are running with the IE6 fix and are having problems with text not appearing: Simply install the msttcorefonts and remove all other "font" fixes. You can get the msttcorefonts here: http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

Thanks, and sorry for all the confusion,
-Nick

Ah Ha!

I now have the fonts back.

Dunno why I didn't have them before, since I had already installed msttcorfonts to both Debian and Crossover before. All I did was remove the Tahoma.ttf from my fonts directories in both Win98 and Win2000 bottles. I also removed the other fix from my system.reg file and then it worked! As far as I can tell, I am back to the same place I was after I got Updates & all working and now I have the fonts in the dropdown menus!

The remaing "probelm" is an unexpected EXIT from the program. This appears to be random, so I can't link it to any action. The program is "usable". With all the canges, I might elect to do the M$ solution and do a re-install. Quicken is the only Winders program I have running under Crossover. I may have made an edit that shouldn't have been made!

Thanks!

-Don Spoon-

Glad to hear it! I haven't experienced the "EXIT" problem you're describing yet. I certainly notice some weird UI slowness and behavior, but I am now actively using Quicken 2007 with the fixes described in this thread, successfully (just paid the bills last night, as a matter of fact!).

I think that it deserves some attention from the CodeWeavers developers to help make it run more smoothly, but I think it is definitely usable at this point.

Thanks,
-Nick

I decided to "Wait and See" on the exit problem. I have done several re-boots into Linux and the system has remained stable, including Quicken 2007! No more sudden "exits" from Quicken and the fonts have remained! I guess the "exit" problem was just a transient due to my edits. The program works flawlessly for me now. Thanks to all.

I should mention one thing I did that is NOT covered in these posts. I alwas wondered why setting my system back to the original config that I had right after I did the "updates" changes didn't give me no button fonts like I originally had. I just remembered that I had installed the Tahoma fonts in my LInux install using the KDE TTF font installer. I have a dual-boot machine with Windows XP, and I can mount the Windows directory. It was an easy thing to install the Tahoma fonts. I notice that Crossover seems to pick up the installed system fonts in the LInux install.

All is good...

-Don Spoon-

I followed the instructions for moving to the Win98 bottle and got that going, online updates worked immediately. But I had the button font problem. I am running Ubuntu 6.10 which claims to have the MS fonts installed. So I tried the font substitution and that worked fine so far anyway. At least for the moment, I have both buttons and online updates.

Nick Nielsen wrote:

Ok - sorry for the hundred posts here. It turns out my previous fix
was unreliable - it worked some of the time. Grrr....

Here is my final suggestion, as I have it working 100% of the time
now. Install the msttcorefonts via Jason's previous post. Then
TAKE OUT the System.reg FontSubstitutions "Tahoma" line if you are
still having problems in your win98-ified Quicken bottle.
Additionally, forget about copying the tahoma.ttf file into your
drive_c/windows/fonts directory.

Again, my final suggestion, if you are running with the IE6 fix and
are having problems with text not appearing: Simply install the
msttcorefonts and remove all other "font" fixes. You can get the
msttcorefonts here: http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

Thanks, and sorry for all the confusion,
-Nick

I've also verified that a fresh install of the msttcorefonts and Crossover 6.0.1 on Fedora Core 5 Linux results in text appearing properly!

I've updated the Tips & Tricks section of the Quicken 2007 forums with the msttcorefonts installation as the preferred method to fix this problem, since it results in Quicken "looking good".

From a fresh install, I didn't need to undo any of the system.reg stuff, but since YMMV I've included that in the Tips & Tricks text.

(Finally getting around to finishing my upgrade from Q2004 -> Q2007 😊

• Jason

Since Windows XP crashed in Parallels after working for about a month, I'm considering Cross-over to run Quicken on my iMac. My only concern is that I downloaded Quicken online. I do not have a CD. Will this be a problem, especially, given the IE6 fix that needs to happen?

Any help will be much appreciated, thanks!

I haven't tried running the Quicken installation without the CD, but I've installed other programs with no problems. In my opinion it should work. Just install Quicken from your setup executable, then once installation is complete, apply the fixes described in the forums. Sorry I can't help more...

I just tried installing (from a downloaded quicken executable) on a new MacBook Q2007 Deluxe with no problems. I see some small font weirdness, but nothing I can't see enough to figure out. I changed over to the win98 from win2000, reinstalled IE6 and all online stuff appears to be working. I'm just using the 30 day trial for now (had been using Parallels) and will evaluate for a bit before sending in my check... but so far, so good!

Jay

I am running Ubuntu Feisty 7.04, and I have successfully fixed the problems with fonts/buttons and the glitch with 7.04. My quicken is working fine for all those things.

But I cannot get the One Step Update or anything with Internet Explorer to work. My situation sounds somewhat unique (which probably accounts for my problem!):

I am not running from an install CD, but instead downloaded the Quicken_2007_Premier.exe from the Intuit website (after paying a great deal of money for it). This install file does NOT install IE automatically, and will install Quicken WITHOUT IE if you let it.

I have tried installing using the tips in this forum (first post in this thread), and using variations of this tip (installing IE first into a bottle, and then Quicken on top, installing Quicken, then IE, etc.). Nothing seems to help.

When I start Quicken up, and hit One Step Update, it tells me I need to register, and when I hit "Next", it does nothing. No IE ever comes up. I also tried hitting the "Help, Unlock Quicken" because I know that this button brings up a browser, and it again tries to bring up a browser but cannot connect to IE.

FWIW, I've also tried to copy in my registration info into the Quicken.INI file (from my XP machine), and this doesn't really affect anything.

Basically, the online connection stuff is broken, with no connection between Quicken and IE.

Anybody able to help??? Please?

I can confirm that Ubuntu 7.04 has a problem with the connection between Quicken and IE. Attempting to register or update results in nothing. The remainder of the fixes work well. Thanks to all the people who have contributed!

Can anyone confirm online updates working on a mac?

Ok, I was having the same problems on OpenSuSE 10.2, even after following all of the above instructions - I just could not get a fully-functional copy of IE going on. It would mostly work right, but anytime I hit the File menu, it would bomb. I managed to trace it back to an unimplemented function in wininet.dll, which led me to this solution:

1. Follow the instructions above for the IE install and the font fix.
2. Open up your user.reg file, and find the same [Software\Wine\DllOverrides] section that you modified the rsaenh.dll line in earlier, and find the entry in that section for wininet.dll. It should read "wininet"="builtin" -- change it to read "wininet"="native, builtin".
3. Save the file, and voila, IE in your Quicken Bottle should be working. Start Quicken - register, update, and enjoy!

Note: I have reason, based on RSS feeds of CVS commits, to believe this might be fixed in the recent Nightly builds. I'll attempt to verify at some point, but if somebody has a recent Nightly Build install, I'd love to hear if it works.

Justin, thanks for figuring this out. I, too, am running OpenSUSE 10.2. Even after following the Quicken 2007 Tips and Tricks' "Combined workaround for Fonts & One Step Update issues" instructions combined with the Jason's instructions at the top of this topic, I could not get the online registration (or, therefore, updates) to work at all. I added your tip, and both worked (apparently) perfectly.

By the way, this was done using the CrossOver Office Pro for Linux 6.2.0 Beta 1 downloaded 9/10/2007. So if the fix in the nightly builds that you mentioned is really there, it did not make it into this beta.

Thanks, again.

Just to let you know, this "wininet"="native, builtin"change also makes Quicken 2008 Premier work like a champ. Of course, you have to follow the other tips and tricks too. Thanks Justin!

I've tried all the fixes posted here. I cannot get updating and online functionality to work on Ubuntu 7.04. Any news on this front?

I did find a way to get Quicken to display its button and menu text in Tahoma. I am dual-booting an Intel PC between Windows XP and openSUSE 10.2. This has worked for me in Crossover Pro 6.2 Beta 1 and Crossover Pro 6.2 rc2.

Using Konquerer, I navigated to /windows/C/WINDOWS/Fonts (this is under where the "C:" drive is mounted) and found the files tahomabd.ttf and tahoma.ttf. One at a time, I right-clicked them and chose Actions -> Install with my mouse. When prompted, I installed them for Personal use. Then I undid the '"Tahoma"="Times New Roman"' change suggested in the Tips & Tricks. Now my Quicken 2007 displays button and menu text in the Tahoma font.

John Randall wrote:

Can anyone confirm online updates working on a mac?

Yup, online updates work for me on MacOS 10.4.10 / CrossOver 6.1.0.

Just to continue the Ubuntu thread....same issue with Gutsy (7.10) and Crossover 6.2. Quicken won't recognize IE.

Dave