Datasheet

Chapter 1: Setting Up Shop

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 2010, 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 pro-

gram will look there. If you’ve 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. But if not, see the later 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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