Option in Preferences to select work online or offline!

LongtimeQKNuser777

Quicken Preferences needs to have an option to select --> work online or work offline <--- . This will prevent quicken (ET) from phoning home. I waste 4-5 minutes every time I open or change quicken files if I'm not connected to the internet. To force me to be connected to the internet to just use quicken locally and either look up information or create reports will cause me to look for a replacment solution and say goodbye to Quicken. I will then toss my 3.5" Floppy disks that I purchased my original Quicken on.

smayer97

BTW, as a work-around, you can adjust your UAC settings to prevent QWin from auto-updating. Currently that is the only way to control the updates.

jccooper

Is there a way to work offline in quicken?

Quicken Anja

Hello @jccooper,

Thank you for reaching out to the Community with your request.

Your idea has been merged into this already active Idea thread regarding the same request.

Thank you!

Chris_QPW

jccooper said:

Is there a way to work offline in quicken?

Quicken will "eventually" detect that you or offline and work that way.
To speed up the process disable your network connection.

When Quicken makes a connection to the server it waits for a timeout to know that it is "offline".  Network timeouts can be very long.

On the other hand if the network is disabled Quicken will get an error immediately and as such the process will go much faster.