Quicken

What works

1. Installation
2. Backup.
3. Online backing update.
4. Browser.
5. Reporting (basic)

What does not

The refresh capabilities are slow. 

If: 1) you click on one of either "Cash Flow Center", "Investing Center", or "Property & Debt" and in the right pane scroll to the button. 2) Click out of that view (does not matter where) 3) Click back into that pane you will notice that the scroll bar remains all the way at the buttom, however, the data shown is that of the top most part of the quicken information.

 In order to see the rest of the data you need to click on the current tabs tab or scroll all the way up, leave the tab, and then return.

 For example: Click on "Cash Flow Center", scroll to the button, click on one of your accounts, click back on "Cash Flow Center"........in order for a proper refresh to occur click on "My Data" tab.

Workarounds

What was not tested

More reports.

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

Platinum rating as of 12/15/2008 based on testing done thus far. No modifications of any kind. DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"

To maximize the screen redraw performance use Windows 98. Doing so appears to speed up the rendering of Quicken screens.

To bypass registration, use the following trick from the Crossover site: "...click the Online menu and then (while holding left-Shift and left-Ctrl) click One Step Update. It will notify you that you will no longer be prompted for registration."

I took a shot and upgraded to the latest beta release of wine and Quicken stopped working getting the Com Err message. 

Using winetricks I made sure I had the corefonts, fontfix, ActiveX plugin, Power Point Viewer 2003 and this got it working once again.

 The only trouble I am having are the tabs and text in the buttons - I can't read them and/or the label is not present. I'll have to play around with the fonts installed by winetricks.