Was tying to install patches to 2016 and came across the error below…
That was referenced in this post…
Hi - I have followed your instructions carefully...4 separate times. The first time, I received the same error message when executing Quicken US Mondo Patches R12 and R19.5. I repeated your wonderful, step by step instructions again, but first I uninstalled Quickbooks 2019 using the Uninstall Programs in the Control Panel. I thought maybe I hadn't gotten all the Quicken links deleted as it wasn't always very clear which were Quickbooks and which were Quicken. My Quicken 2016 file is an executable that I purchased and downloaded from Costco called Quicken_Deluxe_2016.exe and is dated 3/11/2016. After following all the uninstall steps and rebooting and turning off the TrendMicro (our anti virus application), I right mouse clicked and selected Run as Administrator as per instructions. I finally spotted the Window Popup Update where I was supposed to click Cancel. it went by so fast, I couldn't click to Cancel the updates. Followed all the steps to delete Quicken again. Got to the same spot. Thought maybe I caught the Cancel in the Update Window. Ran the patches in order R8, R12 and R19.5 as instructed. Mondo Patch R8 executed perfectly. After executing R12 and R19.5 in order Got error message: "An Error occurred - Unable to check for updates, the server file failed to load." for each of Patches R12 and R19.5. Information in Window showed "Index and length must refer to a location within the string. Parameter name: length" for each patch. Followed all the delete Quicken steps again - thought maybe I wasn't fast enough to cancel those updates. Know I hit the Cancel button in the Window Popup Update in time while installing Quicken. Rebooted machine. Deleted the downloaded Mondo Patches (just in case) and downloaded them again. Mondo R8 patch worked great. Got the same error message on the other 2 patches. I have a new Dell Inspirion 3880 desktop running Windows 10 Home. I am using FireFox for a browser. I am executing the Quicken_Deluxe_2016.exe from an external harddrive. When I try to open Quicken after the Patch install failures, My data file appears to restore to the folder I created on C:\, but Quicken stalls at the "Sign in With Your Intuit ID" window, but the screen in the window is totally blank. Any suggestions?? I have a lot of faith in you, thecreator!! CountryGirl295
When examining the patch itself I stumbled across a workaround that allows installing the patch without having to create a new admin on the machine.
The patch is a self-extracting executable. Some of us with the proper tools know how to look inside these and extract the contents. If that's not you, then you can execute the patch and then look into the path similar to the one below…
c:\Users\<Your Name>\AppData\Local\Temp\IXP000.TMP\
The last part of the name 'may' vary but the date on the folder will be the CURRENT DATE/TIME. The contents will look like this…
[current]
[PatchDependency]
QWVER.DLL
SmartPatch.exe
current.zip
Patch.exe
PatchDependency.zip
In "preparation" for placing the contents into a folder that the newly created admin could easily access I copied all the files/folders above to…
c:\Users\Public\Downloads\19.5\
For grins, still logged in with my usual account, I ran SmartPatch.exe in that folder and to my surprise did not get the error. I got the dialog listing the release notes. I proceeded to install the patch without any difficulty.
Note that just copying the patch to the same Public folder still won't work because it just gets extracted to YOUR AppData\local\temp when executed. The key seems to be executing the patch INSIDE the package with that patch in some folder other than c:\users\<Your Name>\…
I did not bother trying other folders but \Users\Public should suffice since everyone already has those.
Thanks @Chris_QPW for the patches! I have 16 of them but not the last/latest one.
Note too if you want to use large fonts that the 19.5 patch doesn't work as well as the original 2016 release. If I ever decide to actually revert to 2016 then I may just install the individual patches I have until it breaks then step back one :)
