Quicken financial software package

[TNC]

Good Morning ,

Just looking for a little advice….for 20+ years now, I have managed my
personal finances on Quicken - a neat and effective package from Intuit.

Unfortunately Intuit decided to drop the UK supported version around 10 years
ago….needless to say as I was running on XP I chose not to make any changes or
source a different financial package.

Now desperation has dictated an upgrade (machine 10 and MS 10 OS) so unsurprisingly
Quicken is no more!
However I have read that some current financial systems are capable of accepting “other”
CSV data files so I am wondering whether anyone has any experience of this situation?

I have a complete back up file so an attempt to migrate would not add to my “woes”.

I should be grateful for any advice.

Trevor

[roadster]

I have succesfully run a virtual windows 95 on an XP machine and believe that it should be possible to run a virtual XP on a Windows 10 machine, meaning that you could continue using your copy of Quicken. Hopefully, someone with more enthusiasm, than me, for computers will give more advice!
Rod

[ppppenguin]

I use Virtualbox to run XP under other operating systems.

[TNC]

Thanks for your comments - the idea of a virtual XP may well be a goer - I will investigate.

Thanks,

Trevor.

[TNC]

Just a little follow-up.

Happy to report that as suggested, my friendly IT specialist was able to install
Virtual Box on which I was then able to run an original Quicken 2001 disk
which installed without any problems other than slightly degraded
screen display. 
It’s fine for my uses so many thanks for your two most helpful posts.

Trevor

[Mike Watterson]

See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysint...s/disk2vhd
I used it to make a clone VM of my 2002 XP laptop for Virtual Box. Getting settings right took a bit of experimentation. The same VM files can be used on Vbox on Win10 or Linux, though Linux can run 32 bit windows programs on WINE directly that don't work on Win10. On Linux now you need to add the 386 arch by
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
otherwise you only get WINE for 64 bit windows, which is pointless.

Virtual Box is MS preferred solution for backward compatibility. Many VB programs that use any OCX won't work on any 64 bit version of Windows (Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11, there are some older 32 bit Win10 for Atom CPUs that are even 64bit because they don't have enough RAM).
Virtual Box is the normal VM solution for Linux. Amazingly Oracle don't charge for it.

If a program works on WINE that's faster and better than a VM.

I have a cheap 4K 24" screen so can run my cloned 2002 XP laptop in the original 1600x12000 resolution. Though I hardly ever do, les than occasional use of an XP program on WINE.. My Win7 and Win10 VMs are not used. Only installed for completeness.

[ppppenguin]

Microsoft warn that if your XP etc installation is an OEM version rather than a retail version then disk2vhd is unlikely to work.

[Mike Watterson]

The XP I cloned was an OEM Dell. Only BIOS boot works (even win7 on an UEFI PC as long as it was installed in Classic BIOS Boot Mode). The Win7 was a retail version installed via Classic BIOS mode on a UEFI PC. Also you need to have the VBox settings for Win7 SATA disks correct, sometimes the OS is installed in IDE mode. SATA is possible on XP but as the standard install disk didn't have drivers most XP SATA drives are in IDE mode in BIOS. I slipstreamed an XP install to a new disc with SATA drivers, maybe 2006, so I did some XP installs using "native" SATA.

The MS documentation is confusing. I had to try several times to get a vbox file that worked. Also on my XP the "Shadow Volume" copy option didn't work, but it was needed for the Win7 cloning.