Turn OFF Scheduled Updates

Deborah Gearhart

There are over 100 responses and NONE of them address my question.

If I uncheck the Financial Institutions--will this just stop AUTO updating, or will it disconnect me from ALL updates to that institution?

I want to be able to link my financial accounts and update them. I just want to stop running the SCHEDULED updates because they don't work. The way that most customers expect Scheduled Updates to work is: it updates at 2 am while I'm sleeping, so that at 5 am they are updated and ready for me. No input required.
The way it actually works: at 2 am a box requiring my input pops up. It stays up--which keeps my screen on--until 5 am. I have to type it in, and then wait for 10 minutes for Quicken to finish. Completely useless.
Now--because I made the mistake of activating it believing it would work the way Quicken describes it to work, and the way that every user expects it to work, I can't get it to turn OFF without disconnecting ALL my financial institutions from Quicken and starting over???

Tom Young

From the "Help" files:

"To stop Schedule Updates, choose Tools menu > Schedule Updates. Clear the check box beside any day of the week on which you don't want Schedule Updates to run."

I've never used this feature but looking at the setup screen, if you don't want to have to enter your Vault password at 2:00AM, then untick that option on the setup screen and select the other option of entering your Vault password on Windows startup.

Tom Young

From the "Help" files:

"To stop Schedule Updates, choose Tools menu > Schedule Updates. Clear the check box beside any day of the week on which you don't want Schedule Updates to run."

I've never used this feature but looking at the setup screen, if you don't want to have to enter your Vault password at 2:00AM, then untick that option on the setup screen and select the other option of entering your Vault password on Windows startup.

GeoffG

Deborah Gearhart said:

I want to be able to link my financial accounts and update them. I just want to stop running the SCHEDULED updates because they don't work. The way that most customers expect Scheduled Updates to work is: it updates at 2 am while I'm sleeping, so that at 5 am they are updated and ready for me. No input required.

Scheduled updates work as designed perfectly.

@Tom Young points out, it is simply a matter of using sign on at windows startup and setting your update time to whatever you want.

FYI, you don't want to update @2:00am if you want to capture the latest banking activity. Banks perform end of day and inter-bank processing that runs well into the morning. For my bank, 8:00am is the earliest I can get the previous day's activity. I've used this feature for over a decade without any issue when set to Windows startup.

One issue I have noticed however, is every time there is an upgrade, you have to set Scheduled updates on again.