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 2008, 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 whether 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 whether 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, see the section, “The mysterious 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, hopefully 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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