Significant performance increase for investment accounts
I came across 2 fixes to performance problems when working with investments. Here's the test I used: in your slow investment account, put your vertical scroll slider at the bottom of the scroll track. Next hover the cursor over the track just below the UP arrow at the top of the scroll track, click and hold the cursor in the scroll track 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 computers (& using the same Quicken file) it took 2 minutes 45 sec. to scroll all the way up to the top which for my account also is the year 2000. Next I went into Preferences/Investments and under Investment Register Preferences I changed the List Display from "Two Line" to "One Line." On all 3 computers the scrolling speed dropped to 45 seconds, that's 2 minutes faster!!
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 that sits next to the account you've been working on. All these transactions can still be accessed but not changed. 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!! Eureka!! I'll leave a link to Quicken's directions below.
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" 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 out of the box ran circles around the non-tweaked 8-12 year old Win10 machines. What's that about? I don't know but maybe the newer laptop had certain improvements in cpu instructions or elsewhere that caused the huge performance difference. Here's the link I mentioned: