Slow performance in Investment Register solved
July 5, 2024 Quicken Release R57.16
I came across two 2 fixes to performance problems under Investments. The test: put your vertical scroll slider at the bottom of the scroll track. Next hover the cursor over the track just below the UP arrow (NOT on the up arrow) at the top of the scroll track, click and hold the slider and measure how long it takes for the slider at the bottom to climb to the top where your cursor is. On 3 of my Win10 boxes it took 2 minutes 45 sec. to scroll all the way up to the year 2000 at the top. Next I went into Preferences/Investments and changed the Investment Register Preferences under List Display from "Two Line" to "One Line" On all 3 computers the scrolling speed dropped to 45 seconds.
The next thing I did was archive my main investment account which had the greatest slowdown. The archiving function only archives "Settled" transactions and creates a file of all these transactions and then provides a transfer of cash entry that carries over to the investment account you have been working on. Now I repeated the vertical scrolling test and the time dropped remarkedly to just 5 sec. with one line display and 10 seconds with two line display. I'll leave a link to Quicken's directions.
One more thing. I mentioned I have three Windows 10 computers which all responded similarly to these adjustments. I also have a two year old low spec. "student" Lenovo laptop with an Intel Celeron 1.4 GHz processor with Win11. No adjustments were made to this laptop and running the original file with the slow performance gave me a budget laptop that ran circles around the non-tweaked 8-12 year old Win10 machines. What's that about? I don't know but maybe the newer machine (Win11?) had certain improvements in cpu instructions or elsewhere that caused the huge performance difference.