Quicken 2011 Forum

I just successfully installed Quicken 2011 Premier under CrossOver 9.1 on a Mac running 10.6.5 (Snow Leopard). It was not entirely smooth, so here is the way I finally managed to get it to run after several wrong starts and dead ends. It may help someone save time:

1) create a new WinXP bottle
2) install Internet Explorer 7.0 from CrossOver's standard apps list (this will prevent the Quicken Installer from installing Internet Explorer 6.0). Start IE7. It will go to the first-time-only setup page: pick any option, then press the button "Save my Options" (or similar). This will either work ("Your settings have been saved") or not ("Your settings could not be saved"). If you get the error message, you'll have to do step 6 below.
3) install Quicken 2011 from the CD - do NOT let it install any updates if asked
4) download Quicken 2011 R3 update/patch from Intuit's web site here:
http://quicken.intuit.com/support/articles/using-quicken/patches-and-updates/7981.html
5) install Quicken 2011 R3 - do NOT run Quicken at the end of the install as the installer suggests! Let the patch installer finish and quit so that CrossOver can close out the installation.
6) if in step (2) you got the error message about saving your settings, then install Internet Explorer 7.0 again, just as you did in step 2! NOTE: the installation may get stuck on the "Installing IE Core Components...". After you watch this message for 5 minutes, force CrossOver to quit and thus stopping the install. However, the IE 7 installation was completed successfully in my experience and all works fine.

7) When you try to go online for the first time, Quicken will ask you to register, but that always fails. This is a known issue and CodeWeaver forums describe an easy work-around: from Quicken's main screen, press and hold Control+Shift, then click on the Tools | One Step Update menu item. You will see a message saying "Quicken will no longer ask you to register" or similar.

YOU'RE DONE!! (Wasn't that easy?!)

Thank You, this was very helpful. I also needed to install .NET Framework 3.0 to the same bottle before the Quicken 2011 would run correctly.

Hi. Thanks for the hints on the install of Quicken 2011. I followed them and was able to open Quicken2011 after I installed .NET 3. That seemed to do the trick.

However, I am still having a problem which seems to be related to the Crossover presentation of the Quicken application. Here it is:

Once Quicken opens, I do a One Step Update. When that process completes, there is no visible button to close out that window, so there's no way to close that window out to get back to the Quicken application. I tried to click on the red "close" button in the upper left-hand corner of the window, but no luck.

I'm running Snow Leopard, Wine 1.2.1, and Crossover 9.2.0 (in trial mode). I had Quicken 2010 installed in Crossover and working well until a week or more ago when Bank of America started having some problems - I figured I'd update to Q2011 to see if that fixed it, but no. I will absolutely buy Crossover if I can get Q2011 to work because it is SOOOOO less processor intensive than Parallels.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for your help!

Can you compare your One Step Update dialog with the middle of the three screen shots posted and tell us how your screen differs from it? The screen shot shows two buttons at the bottom of the dialog. Are you missing both of those? Do you see the bottom of the dialog box or is it cut off?

Jan Charvat wrote:

Can you compare your One Step Update dialog with the middle of the
three screen shots posted and tell us how your screen differs from
it? The screen shot shows two buttons at the bottom of the dialog.
Are you missing both of those? Do you see the bottom of the dialog
box or is it cut off?

Jan -- Thanks for the reply and question. I've gone back to try Quicken in a native Windows environment and the same problem existed there. To clarify, my One Step Update window looks just as your screenshot #2 looks. My problem arose when I then started the One Step Update process. At that point, the window changes slightly and all the buttons on the bottom of that window disappear. That's not a problem as long as the downloads for all of the online accounts complete in a timely manner. However, one of my accounts was taking an inordinate amount of time -- 10+ minutes, and Quicken gives the user no option to cancel that process during that phase and continue working within Quicken. I've rerun my updates since then and they all process cleanly now within no issues.

So, no problem with Crossover, but perhaps there's a timeout issue within Quicken that does not give the user control of that process after a certain amount of time.

Again, thanks so much for the offer of help. Sorry for crying wolf.

Glad you found the cause (if not the solution)!

I tried installing everything as you said, and everything seemed to install fine. However, when I start up Quicken, it tells me that it encountered an error and it shuts down the program. I can't provide any more information on the error message because it is shutting it all down so quickly that I can't read the message anymore. Any ideas of what might be going on? I just downloaded the program from Intuit earlier today, and when I installed the patch it said my version was already up to date. Not sure if that is relevant at all.

We installed Quicken Deluxe 2011 (basic version of Quicken) using Jan's method and it worked. We had to go through the whole thing, including the re-install of IE, but in the end, we are up and running. Many accounts have been entered and are working. We can download transactions and add other accounts manually. This is a huge deal for us because Quicken for Mac is inadequate and a big disappointment. We manually ran the latest software update patch (R4) from the Quicken website and it installed fine. We did not use the update feature built into Quicken. Jan's advice to run the patches manually is the way to go. We can't register the software, of course, but we do not need the features available only to registered users, so no big deal for our purposes. If it holds steady for a couple of weeks, we will be paying for Crossover Mac. We are using the trial version right now. Thank you, Jan, for your posts.

We are using Crossover Version 9.2 (9.2.0) on a MacBook with 4 GB of RAM and running Mac OS X Version 10.6.5. It has a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo processor. The extra 2 GB of RAM makes this all work better. That's the max for this machine.

Instructions and link for R4 patch download for Quicken 2011 for Windows

This works great with Crossover 10 beta 2, very smooth :)

Hi,
Thanks to everyone for their work on Quicken 2011. I heeded the warning from Codeweavers in David Levitan's "Installing Quicken 2011 Deluxe" tip and trick, and installed Quicken Premier 2011 (U.S. version) into new bottles (WinXP) using CrossTie under Crossover Linux Professional 10.0.0 running under openSUSE 11.3 64-bit and Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit on the same multi-booting workstation. However, online help no longer actually displayed help, just blank pages. No version of Internet Explorer was installed during the Quicken installation. Trying to manually install IE 6 using CrossOver's Manage Bottles application resulted in a CrossOver warning that it was incompatible with the bottle. I was able to install IE 7 into the bottles using Manage Bottles. I heeded the warnings, and now online help displays text. I still get "Permission Denied" script errors each time I click something in the left Contents pane to navigate somewhere in Help (I've gotten this ever since Quicken 2004). But I just press the Yes button, and help proceeds and is usable. Quicken Premier 2011 seems to work well (though I have yet to try the investment functionality).

Does your workaround where you use control plus shift at the one step update, allow you to get online access to download quotes, etc. I installed Quicken H&B 2011 and IE7, but I can't register and I want to be able to get online quote and data updates. Thanks.

Thanks. I was able to bypass the registration screen. I just need to work on updates to the program.

I report another smooth install of Quicken Premier 2011 via CrossTie on CrossOver Pro 10.0 in my SuSe 11.2 x64 environment. I successfully restored my backup file from Quicken 2008, did the Ctrl-Shift/One-Step-Update workaround, and downloaded transactions. This should be bumped up to at least Silver.

My Quicken 2011 Premier works fine under 10.6.6 except to crashes when I try to print checks. I can print the Home screen fine but checks causes an error. Any suggestions?