Quicken

What works

General account functions

One step update

Charts

 

What does not

Downloading from some bank websites

Workarounds

What was not tested

Lots of features

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

With wine-1.1.12 and a recent version of winetricks, what I did was: - run "winetricks gdiplus" - run "wine Quicken_Premier_2007.exe" - get updates when prompted during the Quicken install - install gecko when prompted during Quicken startup - perform the registration bypass hack I didn't seem to need the cabextract or msttcorefonts packages, or ies4linux. Some bank websites still don't work correctly, but one step update works in general, and I haven't found anything else yet that's broken once the install completes. NOTE: Some package(s) on Ubuntu (possibly from the universe or multiverse repository) cause the installation to fail completely with a "Crash" window that reports "Com Error". I haven't narrowed down the specific package(s) that cause this problem yet.

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.