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Installing and Updating (Windows)
Update to 29.29 forced (aggravating problem)
Don Awalt
This morning, when I ran Quicken Windows Premier it jumped right into an install of an update without a choice - nor can I find anything onsite or in the program as to what changed. So now I am on R29.29. Why does it do this periodically, force an update with no choice? Why isn't the documentation out if they have pushed the update? It's high time this behavior is fixed, it's not the first time....
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splasher
Just got this information on the R29.9 Release Notes:
Improvement:
The
Add Account
screens have been improved to make the process of linking accounts to financial institutions easier. The new design emphasizes that users add accounts by financial institution rather than account type. For example, a user may have several accounts (checking, savings, credit card, etc.) with the same institution and those can be added via a single search rather than searching for each account type separately. The improved process also uses tabs to delineate adding connected accounts from adding offline accounts or other assets and liabilities. As before, you can add an account by selecting the
+
icon on your
Account Bar
.
Quicken Home & Business
users will see an additional tab with business options. We've also improved the financial institution search. As part of this process, the search results page was redesigned to make results more informative and the popular financial institutions list includes a greater variety of financial services.
Improvement
: As part of the
Add Account
improvement, It is now easier to add
Direct Connect
to a loan account, either when adding a financial institution for the first time, or as a later step.
Improvement
: Added the ability to use the
Simple Investing
beta when adding investment accounts through the
Add Account
process.
Improvement
: Cloud synchronization has improved error handling and transaction processing.
Improvement
: Updated the financial institution login page to improve messaging and promote security.
Improvement
: Added the
Contact Quicken Support
menu item under
Help
.
Improvement
: Made it easier to change the file location for automated backups.
Improvement
: Increased the number of days in advance you can schedule a bill from 45 to 365.
Improvement
: Added the ability to initiate a
Quick Pay
or
Check Pay
payment from the
Bills & Income Reminders
(Ctl + J) window.
Improvement
: Added in-product tutorial and videos for using
Quicken Bill Manager
with
Quick Pay
and
Check Pay
. They can be accessed from the
Bills & Income
tab.
Fixed
: Resolved an issue in which the
Online Payee List
did not retain former
Quicken Bill Pay
payees, making it more difficult to add these payees to
Quicken Bill Manager
.
Fixed
: Resolved issue using autofill for adding payees in reminders.
Fixed
: Resolved issue passing security information related to challenge questions.
Fixed
: Resolved issue using Quickfill to input categories for banking transactions such as withdrawals and check writing,
Fixed
: Resolved issue printing PDF files for reports.
Fixed
: Added error message for users attempting to backdate manual reminder transactions to a date prior to the the first entered transaction from the reminder.
Fixed
: Resolved issue preventing users from copying and pasting bank transactions such as deposits and withdrawals.
Fixed
: Resolved issue with budget report when selecting N
on-Zero Actual/Budgeted
and
Include Transfers
.
Fixed
: Resolved issue in which the prompt to
Update All Categories for a Payee
did not appear when recategorizing a transaction for a payee.
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splasher
Are you certain that
Help->About Quicken
shows R29.29?
The latest I am aware of is R28.28 and there is no word about it except your report.
splasher
I did just find a reference to an R29.9, so maybe one of you made a typo.
splasher
Quicken will do "staged releases", where they upgrade (or at least offer to upgrade) a given number of users and then wait to see if there are any issues reported that were not found in testing.
They will do that cycle a couple of times and then make it a general release and update this webpage:
latest patch.
Why there weren't any release notes made available during the update, I can't explain.
Don Awalt
Sorry, it was 29.9 - see below; which is odd, as the latest in the release notes at
https://www.quicken.com/support/quicken-windows-release-notes
is 28.28, which is why I assumed I read .29.
Also, checking for updates indicates this is the latest update - so is this just a typo in the version? Did they drop back (I hope not)?
So something is messed up in this update shoved onto my computer. Also, as this link above shows, there are no release notes and it forced the update without any user consents - a longstanding problem even when the release version is not allegedly messed up.
Hopefully we will hear something from quicken on what's going on.
splasher
Did you not read my post about "staged releases"? You were obviously in the first staged release.
If you want complete control over what is installed on your Windows computer, raise the level in the Windows UAC setting so that you are asked for your permission if ANY program tries to make a change to programs such as a Quicken patch release.
splasher
Just got this information on the R29.9 Release Notes:
Improvement:
The
Add Account
screens have been improved to make the process of linking accounts to financial institutions easier. The new design emphasizes that users add accounts by financial institution rather than account type. For example, a user may have several accounts (checking, savings, credit card, etc.) with the same institution and those can be added via a single search rather than searching for each account type separately. The improved process also uses tabs to delineate adding connected accounts from adding offline accounts or other assets and liabilities. As before, you can add an account by selecting the
+
icon on your
Account Bar
.
Quicken Home & Business
users will see an additional tab with business options. We've also improved the financial institution search. As part of this process, the search results page was redesigned to make results more informative and the popular financial institutions list includes a greater variety of financial services.
Improvement
: As part of the
Add Account
improvement, It is now easier to add
Direct Connect
to a loan account, either when adding a financial institution for the first time, or as a later step.
Improvement
: Added the ability to use the
Simple Investing
beta when adding investment accounts through the
Add Account
process.
Improvement
: Cloud synchronization has improved error handling and transaction processing.
Improvement
: Updated the financial institution login page to improve messaging and promote security.
Improvement
: Added the
Contact Quicken Support
menu item under
Help
.
Improvement
: Made it easier to change the file location for automated backups.
Improvement
: Increased the number of days in advance you can schedule a bill from 45 to 365.
Improvement
: Added the ability to initiate a
Quick Pay
or
Check Pay
payment from the
Bills & Income Reminders
(Ctl + J) window.
Improvement
: Added in-product tutorial and videos for using
Quicken Bill Manager
with
Quick Pay
and
Check Pay
. They can be accessed from the
Bills & Income
tab.
Fixed
: Resolved an issue in which the
Online Payee List
did not retain former
Quicken Bill Pay
payees, making it more difficult to add these payees to
Quicken Bill Manager
.
Fixed
: Resolved issue using autofill for adding payees in reminders.
Fixed
: Resolved issue passing security information related to challenge questions.
Fixed
: Resolved issue using Quickfill to input categories for banking transactions such as withdrawals and check writing,
Fixed
: Resolved issue printing PDF files for reports.
Fixed
: Added error message for users attempting to backdate manual reminder transactions to a date prior to the the first entered transaction from the reminder.
Fixed
: Resolved issue preventing users from copying and pasting bank transactions such as deposits and withdrawals.
Fixed
: Resolved issue with budget report when selecting N
on-Zero Actual/Budgeted
and
Include Transfers
.
Fixed
: Resolved issue in which the prompt to
Update All Categories for a Payee
did not appear when recategorizing a transaction for a payee.
Don Awalt
Thanks for the release notes.
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