Datasheet
When in doubt about some installation option, just accept the default
suggestion by pressing Enter.
After the installation is complete, Quicken displays an installation
complete message.
4. Click Done.
Congratulations. You’re done.
After you install Quicken, you need to start it to finish the setup process. If
you told the installation program to launch Quicken 2007, you should see the
Quicken program window on your screen. If you didn’t tell the installation
program to launch Quicken, you need to start Quicken.
The easiest way to start Quicken is to double-click the Quicken shortcut icon
that (post-installation) appears on your Windows desktop. The Quicken pro-
gram window appears, almost like magic.
Quicken might ask if it can download program updates over the Internet. You
can just say yes if it asks you this question.
Finishing Setup If You’ve
Used Quicken Before
If you’ve used a previous version of Quicken, the Quicken program might
show option buttons to indicate what you want to do next: Open the found
data file. (Alternatively, you can indicate that you want to open some other
data file.) You’re done. You’re ready to begin Quicken-ing.
The Quicken setup process can usually tell if you’ve used Quicken before.
The setup process knows where the Quicken installation program usually
puts the Quicken program and data files, and the installation program will
look there. If you have used Quicken before but Quicken can’t see this, two
possibilities exist: The first possibility is that you put the Quicken data file
someplace weird. (If that’s the case, hopefully, you remember the weird place
you hid the Quicken data file. If you can’t remember, choose File➪Find
Quicken Data File, select the disk you want to search from the Look In box,
and click Find. Quicken displays a list of the Quicken data files on the
selected disk. For more help with this, you can refer to the section, “The mys-
terious case of the missing Quicken data files,” at the end of this chapter.)
The second possibility is that you didn’t do anything with the Quicken data
file but that the data file has somehow gone missing. (If that’s the case, hope-
fully, you backed up the Quicken data file to a CD or to some other disk from
which you can restore the data file.)
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