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| Quicken Deluxe 2006 [Old Version] | ![Quicken Deluxe 2006 [Old Version]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41AFJF9M4DL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | From: Intuit
Category: Software
Buy New: $149.88
New (1) Used (5) from $23.29
Avg. Customer Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 2376
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.4
MPN: 294949
Model: 283652
UPC: 028287011052
EAN: 0028287011052
ASIN: B0009XB156
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Stay away to avoid the the Quicken nightmare. December 25, 2005
24 out of 32 found this review helpful
Aaaargh! Stay away! My Quicken QDF file is corrupt (again.) (Apparently, due to a download?) Quicken's customer service won't help... what customer service? I have to go back through ten years of statements and enter them again! This product is nightmare. It used to be good. Intuit wants to be bank now, so they don't care about lowly Quicken users. (However, every two or three years they will require you to buy their latest version -- whether or not it works -- because the one you bought will no longer function properly.) I wish I did not spend so much time learning and using this product. When I needed it most, at end-of-year tax-time, Quicken killed me. If you buy this product, I promise you that your day, too, will come. Look around, I am not the only one complaining. Good luck.
 Intuit missed the boat with this one! December 7, 2005
27 out of 28 found this review helpful
I have been a Quicken user since it was a DOS application back in the mid `80s. It has always been a very good and reliable product. However: Quicken 2006 is by far the worst release of Quicken Intuit has ever produced. There are many improvements that make it better, but the drawbacks trump any advantage to upgrading. If you are considering buying Quicken for the first time I highly recommend it, but if you can still get a Quicken 2005 version I would recommend you buy it rather than this version. If you are considering upgrading, I would suggest you keep your prior version of Quicken and wait to see if Intuit corrects the many discrepancies in this version, or corrects them in their 2007 product.
Amongst the many things needing correction in this version is the way group scheduled transactions are handled. I opened a new checking account and wanted to change the register a scheduled transaction group went into from the old to the new account. I found Quicken 2006 no longer allows you to do this. You either must change it manually each time you add the transactions to you register or delete the group and create an identical group pointing to the new register. All previous versions of Quicken allowed you to change registers with out any trouble. Also: I inadvertently said to skip a transaction group recording. No problem: All I need do is edit the group and change the "Next Scheduled Date" back to the date skipped...wrong! Quicken 2006 no longer allows you to modify the "Next Scheduled Date". All of this information is grayed out when you edit the group. Once again my only option was to delete the group and create a new identical group with the inadvertently skipped due date as the beginning date. Again: All previous versions of Quicken allowed you to make these modifications. I started an online chat with Quicken support on these and other issues only to find out what I told you here. There is no longer any way to accomplish what I needed to accomplish in Quicken 2006. At the end of one chat session the technician I was chatting with told me he had received more questions on these issues than any other issue. He suggested I submit a suggestion request Intuit put these functions back into the current product, which I did. If enough people do so it is possible Intuit will correct these discrepancies and make this product the excellent product it has always been. There are many other issues, but this should be enough to let you know this product needs correction before it is worth upgrading to.
Now that I have tore this product apart let me say this: Quicken is still a very good product. I would highly recommend it over its only real competition, Microsoft Money. There are many improvements made to Quicken 2006 that are good. If they correct these few shortcomings it would be worth upgrading to. Intuit has always been a very good company producing high quality software. They missed the boat with this version, but I expect they will make adjustments to rectify these discrepancies. If not with updates to this version then in their 2007 release.
Be afraid! Be very afraid if you're running XP Home! December 2, 2005
18 out of 27 found this review helpful
I love Quicken. Loved it so much I bought Quicken 2006 for my new Dell Laptop. I have yet to install it successfully after much help from Intuit and Dell and I'm not the only one having issues. Quicken 2006 does not like XP Home w/ Service Pack 2. I installed it on my XP Pro w/SP2 like a dream. I installed it on my old XP Pro SP1. But on my laptop it will not go. Pretty lost right now since I have everything in Quicken, and need to use it from laptop.
I give up! I'll stick with my dinosaur Money 99 December 1, 2005
11 out of 21 found this review helpful
Where to start? Installing the disc was easy (on my PC)..then came the trouble. I tried to get it to go out and find my financial information at my main bank, it couldn't find it. I went to the banking institution to download it to quicken and that worked fine with checking and with savings. Next problem, when I tried to download my home loan information, there wasn't a link to do that, so I force typed the information into quicken...and it ADDED a ficticious amount called a "correction".
Then the fun...I thought I should try adding the information from the paychecks, but unfortunately, all the categories are pre-named (no overtime, vacation, sick pay categories of gross pay). I've had it to how limited quicken is and how hard it is to download information cleanly. It's back to Money 99 and I'm looking to update it if I can find an un-buggy version. By the way, I refuse to use the overused Internet explorer, so I use Mozilla/Firefox, which is much safer, IMO. That could be the reason as to why downloads generated from quicken didn't work for me.
Follow-up 3/1/06: I am currently using Quicken and have decided never to use the download feature for most of my accounts. It turns out that the banking institutions use or duplicate a code as part of the name for the payee, so instead of, let's say, Mobil (gasoline) it says Mobil 0984567341....etc. Then when I try to download it (after earlier having manually entered it), I end up with duplicate entries. Some gas stations don't use "Mobil" in the receipt. I'm happier just entering it manually, for now.
More complicated than ever November 19, 2005
13 out of 26 found this review helpful
I have been using Quicken since 1997 and loved it. I last had 2001 before buying 2006. I liked 2001, but didn't like the new sunset/upgrade policy. I got 2006 anyway. Right now, I wished I hadn't. I can't figure out how to change my online settings. I can not change the online sttings to recognize my dsl account or any of my credit cards. I also don't like having to enter a password everytime I try to log in. They should have kept it simple.
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