Years back there was a way to limit the number of years that loaded on startup. Is that option still

normbue

Is there a way to load a certian numberof years that are used all the time, rather than load 15 years worth of hiustory every time?

UKR

That goes back to the DOS days, where all your computer could access was 640 KB of RAM.

Modern versions of Quicken for Windows can handle much more data without any problems, unless you are an active day trader processing many investment transactions per day or run a small business with many customer invoices per day. If you feel like splitting your data file in half, please take a closer look at the Year End Copy process, initiated from the File Menu, File Operations.
Before you jump into doing it, please read up on it in Quicken Help

Please note the yellow text above. Not all transactions are subject to YEC processing, especially transactions in Invoice accounts and investment transactions.

Bring up the dialog above and click the question mark button to access Quicken Help. Click to expand all blue text links in the Help page and read about what YEC does.

Also please remember: At this time there is nothing available to seamlessly put the two halves of your data file back together again, should you change your mind later on.

UKR

That goes back to the DOS days, where all your computer could access was 640 KB of RAM.

Modern versions of Quicken for Windows can handle much more data without any problems, unless you are an active day trader processing many investment transactions per day or run a small business with many customer invoices per day. If you feel like splitting your data file in half, please take a closer look at the Year End Copy process, initiated from the File Menu, File Operations.
Before you jump into doing it, please read up on it in Quicken Help

Please note the yellow text above. Not all transactions are subject to YEC processing, especially transactions in Invoice accounts and investment transactions.

Bring up the dialog above and click the question mark button to access Quicken Help. Click to expand all blue text links in the Help page and read about what YEC does.

Also please remember: At this time there is nothing available to seamlessly put the two halves of your data file back together again, should you change your mind later on.