Free update available for your Quicken 2004 software

Quicken 2004 Release 5 Update, February 2004

This free update provides you with the latest enhancements to your Quicken software. Changes have been made to the Tax Rates, Investment Reports, Investment Forms, the Register and Reports, and online banking. This release contains the following enhancements and improvements as well as including those from all prior maintenance releases:

Before You Update

If you use online account services to download transactions into Quicken or to pay bills online from within Quicken, please make sure to complete all your online sessions before you update.

To check that all previous online sessions have been completed we recommend you perform the following steps:

1. From the Online Center, click Update/Send. If your last online session was not completed, you'll see the following error message: "Your last online session was not completed. Quicken will now try to complete this previous connection. After it is done, you can send your new request."
   
   
2. Click OK to complete your previous connection. Once the connection has completed, you can proceed with your Quicken update.

R5 Release Notes

TAXES

• Updated Quicken to reflect changes in tax exemption amount.

PREFERENCES

• Resolved a problem with the ability to open data files when the "Calendar and currency" preference setting has been changed.

SCHEDULED TRANSACTIONS

• Resolved a problem with the ability to open data files where the file is processing an estimated tax schedule.

Changes made in prior release (R4)

This release contains the following enhancements and improvements:

Taxes

• Updated Quicken to reflect changes in tax laws and rates.

Investment Performance Report

• Fixed a problem where NA showed as the Average Annual Return value for all date ranges when subtotaling by security.
  
  
• Fixed a problem where banking transactions would not be counted in the Average Annual Return calculation.
  

Investment Forms

• Added a field to the Reinvest Income entry form to allow the entry of fees associated with Dividend Reinvestment programs.
• Fixed an issue where specified lots were not being maintained when selling ESPP shares.

Register/Calculator

• The calculator now maintains decimal places when editing transactions.

Reports

• Voided checks will no longer appear on the Missing Checks report.

This notice is provided as a convenience for our customers and is not intended to supplement, modify or extend the Intuit software license agreement between Intuit and the customer for any Intuit product or service.

Changes made in prior release (R3)

Home Page / Net Worth Snapshot

Eliminated potential crash when customizing the Net Worth snapshot on the Quicken Home Page to show large date ranges. This resulted in errors such as: "The instruction at [memory address] referenced memory at [memory address]. The memory could not be read, Memory could not be written, and an error occurred during the last task."

Backing Up Data Files

• The message "There is a file with the same name in the directory or disk. Do you want to overwrite it?" will no longer display after "Don't show this message again" has been selected.
  
  
• Resolved the ability to recognize a CD-R or CD-RW drive on Windows XP machines.
  

Data Files with Long Names

Resolved a problem with the ability to open data files on NTFS partitions where the file path exceeds 128 characters. This sometimes resulted in an error "Can't open file" when converting to the current version of Quicken.

Register Calculator

• The calculator in the register will now calculate correctly when the first number entered contains 3 or more decimal places.
  
  
• Sorting options in the Register will now persist after closing and re-launching Quicken.

Performance

• Resolved slow and/or faltering performance when typing into the register.
  
  
• Eliminated the situation where Windows XP machines could not enter hibernate or standby mode because the Quicken Background Download Manager from a prior version of Quicken was not uninstalled or had been disabled.

Installing Quicken

Resolved the ability to install Quicken when certain files are missing.

• This includes eliminating the error message "A required .dll file, OLEACC.dll was not found."
  
  
• This also includes resolving the error message "Quicken is unable to find one or more essential files. You must uninstall Quicken then install Quicken again to continue."
  

Converting Data Files

Resolved the ability to open and convert data files that have duplicate tax profile records. This resulted in an error "Can't open file" when converting to the current version of Quicken.

Online Banking

• Modified the text of the "How do you want to setup your account?" dialog during Account Setup for Web Connect financial institutions to provide clearer instructions on how to proceed.
  
  
• Eliminated a situation where the sign was incorrect for check and debit transactions downloaded into investing accounts.
  
  
• Added additional information to the message OL-393 that occurs during certain online banking sessions to display additional detail and next steps. The new text of the message is: "Quicken was not able to bring all of your online transaction information up to date for account [account name]. The server may be currently unavailable or your account information may not be correct. You can review account information by right-clicking the account name in the Account Bar list and choosing Edit Account; then compare the information in Quicken with that provided by your financial institution and make any necessary changes. Please try again later. If the problem continues, call [financial institution name] at [financial institution's contact information].