Quicken has slowed down a lot for all transaction-related activity. Takes 2-4 min to update acct

Harry-NJ

I am using Quicken Desktop on Windows 11 on a Surface Pro 11 (ARM chip), version R64.25, build 27.1.64.25. The software has been getting progressively slower over the past few months. It is now to the point where my updates from 6 financial institutions takes me 15-20 minutes to perform. Something seems poorly designed.

I have been using Quicken Desktop for a long time - maybe as long as 30 years. I have 18 investment accounts and 4 banking accounts. I thought maybe there was old history in many of the accounts so I ran the utility to archive zero positions in each of them but this did not help. Something else is wrong.

Besides downloads, the slowness also happens when I edit a single transaction. It takes 10-20 seconds to simply edit a field in a downloaded transaction or a manually-entered one. It seems that the DB is at some type of limit. My QDF data file is 167,680 KB.

Aside from losing my basis for all of my holdings and starting over again, is there any other way to make Quicken run substantially faster?

NotACPA

As a test, try initiating the download manually, from within Q, one FI at a time … to see if that identities a particular FI that might be the cause.

Also, have you taken a look at Archiving some older transactions in those accounts? The Archive function, by moving transactions for positions you no longer hold to another account, can significantly reduce the size of the originating investment account and thereby speed up all activity in such account.

To do this, click the Gear icon in the upper right of the account register and then "Archive Transactions". After doing this, if you want investment reports that include archived transactions, you'll need to include those additional accounts, but usual activity should be quite a bit faster.