Quicken

What works

Basic functionality.  One-steup update.

What does not

Downloading from some bank websites.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Reports.  Printing.  Attachments.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

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• Driver:

Additional Comments

After installing wine_gecko-0.9.0.cab and configuring wine to run as Win98, Quicken mostly works. One-steup update seems to work just fine, for institutions that normally work with that function. Downloading transactions manually from some institutions doesn't work at all - large sections of the web page render as complete black. (Some institutions don't work at all with one-step update on any platform, so manual download capability is a necessity.)

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.