Possible solution for SLOW Quicken for Windows

Martin5502

I have had a similar issues as described in the thread below for the past year or so. I have used Quicken since 1996 and my .QDF file is currently 216MB. I did some testing today and found the cause of the slowness, at least for me. On the Quicken Home screen there is a Dashboard. This seems to be the culprit. Launching Quicken on my Win10 PC to the Dashboard is very slow, 54 seconds. Everything I do is slow (download, transactions, etc). However, if you click the gear icon in the upper right it gives you the option to select the Classic View Dashboard. The Classic View gives you the option to select other views such as Account Summary and your custom views (select any view other than Dashboard and you can customize it or add a new view). I used the Account Summary and my custom view for the tests and got similar results. These results vs using Dashboard are summarized below:

Launch Quicken: using Dashboard 54 seconds, using Account Summary 11 seconds
Run One Step Update: using Dashboard 4 minutes, using Account Summary 28 seconds
Enter transaction into register: using Dashboard 38 seconds, using Account Summary <1 second

As you can see, there is some sort of issue with Dashboard as it results in significant slowness. Try using the Account Summary Home view and see if this resolves the slowness you are experiencing with Quicken. Also, make sure your Edit|Preferences|Startup option is set to Home and NOT Dashboard.

I tried to add to this previous discussion but it would take it for some reason.

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7935877/quicken-is-s-l-o-w-everyone-affected-please-chime-in

John654321

This solved the same issue for me and resolved a ton of headache - thank you!!!

Quicken Anja

Hello @Martin5502,

We appreciate you sharing your findings here in the Community and are glad to see this is helping with the slowness issue you and others are experiencing.

I will pass this along internally to have it looked into.

Thank you!