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Article #10609Quicken 2: Bad Experience
From: Chuck Black
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:06
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:06
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I've just had a very bad experience with Quicken 2.0 for Windows, and even though I am a mild-mannered individual my frustration has driven me to post this note. I was a Quicken 5 (DOS-version) user switching to Quicken 2 (Windows), being guaranteed that the data files were 100% compatible between the two. Unfortunately, this was not the case. Quicken 2 crashed with a general protection fault immediately upon trying to load the Quicken 5 (DOS) data. Making a long story short, after paying as much for telephone calls to their support line as we did for the product, and receiving less help and troubleshooting than I had already performed myself, I got final brush-off from Quicken today. They never even investigated the problem given the detailed segment/offset information available and the Dr. Watson log information. They suggested I get my PC checked out, even though it runs dozens of other software packages (including Quicken 5, and Quicken 2 with new files) successfully. The PC even serves as the development environment for my work, running the windows SDK and MS C/C++ compiler. I assume that in most cases Quicken works fine, but this experience was so negative that I felt compelled to write. Perhaps it will save someone some headaches in the future. Chuck Black Hewlett-Packard / Roseville Networks chuckb@hprnd.rose.hp.com
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From: chuckb@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Chuck Black) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:06:37 GMT Subject: Quicken 2: Bad Experience Message-ID: <490002@hprnd.rose.hp.com> Organization: HP Roseville Networks Division Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!scd.hp.com!hpscdm!hplextra!hpcss01!hpergfg2!hprdash!hprnd!chuckb Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Lines: 24