Does Quicken 2019 run on Windows 10 home 32 bit edition

dan 130

Does Quicken 19 run on Windows 10 home 32 bit edition? If yes, does there have to be a folder called program files (x86) on the C drive?
Also, how does your information about your subscription get into the "about Quicken" in the help button?
Thanks

Chris_QPW

Yes Quicken will run on Windows 10 Home 32-bit.

And on "program files (x86)", there isn't a "Program Files (x86)" in Windows 10 32-bit, only "Program Files".

The reason there is a "Program Files" and a "Program Files (x86)" on Windows 64-bit is because it can run both 32-bit programs and 64-bit programs.

Windows needs to keep them separate so they created "Program Files (x86)" for storing the 32-bit programs, and 64-bit programs go into "Program Files".

Quicken is a 32-bit program, and as such on Windows 32-bit it is installed in "Program Files", but on Windows 64-bit it is installed in "Program Files (x86)".

Note that if they put out a version of Quicken that was 64-bit, they would have to also maintain a 32-bit version for this very reason, so that is one reason that they don't do that.

dan 130

Thanks for the answer. I have Quicken on several computers. The one that is 32 bit won't run Quicken, so there must be something else preventing it from running.

Chris_QPW

Well I know that it can run because I have an old test laptop running Windows 10 Professional 32-bit and Quicken runs on it just fine.  The differences between Home and Professional shouldn't make a difference at all.

I have that setup because I use it from time to time to test some very old programs for my work.  Those programs are 16-bit and as such can't run on a 64-bit Windows.  Quicken 32-bit can run 16-bit and 32-bit programs.

What kind of errors are you getting that prevent it from running?

And I'm curious of why you are running Windows 10 32-bit?

dan 130

When I upgraded to Windows 10 on that computer I choose 32 bit. I have a lot of apps on that computer that I don't have updates for, so I don't want to lose them by updating to 64 bit

Chris_QPW

Makes sense, thanks for satisfyingly my curiosity.