Load Quicken on my laptop as backup

Divemaster

I have Quicken Deluxe on desktop, but have a backup for traveling.  Can I load my copy of Quicken Deluxe on laptop along with the same data file used on desktop so I can use when on the road?  Thought that might be possible since when I start Quicken, it checks against an activation server to see if my data file is licensed.  But maybe it only checks software, not sure what it checks. 

splasher

With subscription Quicken, you can install Quicken on as many computers as you want, but they will all need to be registered to the same Quicken Id, so you don't want to give your neighbor a copy.

There is no way to keep the data files on the two computers in sync via Quicken, so what you will need to do is to copy the data file back and forth as needed.  The easiest and cleanest method is to do a Quicken Backup to a thumbdrive and then do a Quicken Restore to move the file.

Just remember which computer has the "master" copy so that you don't make updates on the computer with an out-of-date data file.

Also, do not think that you can keep the file on a shared folder or home network drive, Quicken does excessive reads/writes and doing that over a network could lead to data file corruption.