Y'all! Please, stop!

MSStateDawg

Quicken is notorious for releasing updates over holidays and weekends. We've encountered issues in the past and were unable to get an expedient fix due to delays associated with weekends and holidays. Please, don't.

User 484

All of your constant updates keeping fouling up my information. With each new update, I spend 400+ hours cleaning up the mess because I have to revert back to prior backups (6+ months prior) to attain the original information that was corrupted from an update, then work on bringing my current file up-to-date. Once I get one item fixed, another update comes along & corrupts 30 more items. LIMIT THE UPDATES TO ONCE A YEAR!!!!!!! This program is becoming a waste of my time, energy, and resources to keep my information current & reliable. You should pay your subscribers for the messes you create.

BK

The fact is that many users do appreciate frequent updates to receive periodic fixes and improvements, while some others don't. I fall in a hybrid category as I update mine about once a quarter. As an example I reported a bug about two months ago and it is already fixed in the latest release and that is a benefit to all of us. That being said, we are in full control of accepting/allowing an update or not by using the build-in Windows User Account Control setting (UAC) which is a good practice to properly configure it so that no program can sneak in without your consent.

AlexisoftheShire

I agree with BK. I have Windows 11 Quicken Classic Premier. I use UAC to deny Quicken updating from 2 to 4 weeks. during that time I check this community forum and the Quicken subreddit to determine how reliable the update experience is going for others. Once I'm satisfied the update is fine I go ahead and reply Yes to Quicken's UAC request to proceed.

Additionally, I keep the current release of the Quicken mondo patch I am using in my download folder in case I need to uninstall/reinstall, which I haven't done in many years.

MSStateDawg

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20464107#Comment_20464107

I, too, am in favor of frequent updates to address issues, but anyone with even a miniscule amount of release management experience knows that you DON'T release updates around holidays or weekends. It's procedural suicide.

MSStateDawg

Yeah, I've seen the Quicken folk side-step UAC in the past. I've clicked No on it over several days only to see the update magically installed a few days later without a UAC prompt.

BK

@MSStateDawg

Seems like we have had different experiences:

• Quicken has never been able to sneak in and self-update itself on my systems - never, because my UAC has always caught it. I consider myself lucky I guess. In fact I have always and only used their manual patch site to manually download and install it myself when I am ready. EDIT/ADD: If that happens, I view that as an issue with Windows UAC as it is its job to catch it, and that's where I'd focus to resolve.
• I have not seen Quicken posting a new release on a holiday or weekend but I could be wrong. However, I can guess how that might've happened for you or others: When you launch Quicken, it looks for a counter and/or a date since it last checked for an update. So every so many days or # of times you launch Quicken it checks for an update - similar to many other programs. In fact I think if you close and relaunch Quicken say 10 or more (?) times in a row, it will check for an update. My theory is that by coincidence it has fallen on a weekend for you; and I appreciate that you don't want that to happen.

Regards

Rocket J Squirrel

UAC can be deliberately bypassed. I certainly hope the Quicken programmers aren't doing so on purpose. Do a web search for "bypass uac" and you'll see quite a few results.

Perhaps the most visible manifestation of this is in the application CCleaner. It its advanced options, the user may choose to have CCleaner obey or bypass UAC.