Quicken is S L O W - Everyone affected Please chime in.

@vharbuck - can you do a OSU on one Financial Institution at a time? is it possible it is the connect time to a specific institution that is slowing things down? EWC+ is going to be slower than other connection types.

Also, please confirm what version of WINDOWS you are running.

@Mark1104 , I did exactly what you asked @vharbuck to do. One financial institution at a time. Created numerous single financial institution "Test Files" with the same results. Just as slow…… slow even when no transactions are downloaded.

With all the discussion and "guessing" for solutions there is 1 missing part of the transfer of data flow that nobody can even ask about. "The 3rd party servers of Intuit"…. Try talking to them…. can't be done….. No answers from Quicken except the default statement " This issue remains ongoing and our teams continue to work toward a solution. No ETA or further details are available at this time, and this Alert will be updated once more information, updates, etc become available.

We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

Thank you!"

SO WE WAIT AND HOPE. 😊😊😊

When Quicken started to run so slow that it was becoming almost unusable, I took action. Firewall settings were checked, new dummy files were created to see if they also ran slow (they did), & different Win 11 Pro hacks were done in attempt to speed things up. Malwarebytes was used to make sure this system was not infected. A clean install of Win11 Pro did not help. A new Quicken data file was started from scratch reducing file size from 139,887 to 14,884 kb (no improvement). The other programs on my PC loaded quickly and were problem free on an AMD Ryzen 7-5800X GeForce RTX 3060 machine. Technical support concluded there was something wrong on my computer, yet everything else worked fine.

Quicken performance did respond to running the "Windows Update troubleshooter" improving performance for several weeks. A troubleshooter repeat bought several more weeks.

In a last ditch effort, a clean install of Win 11 Pro was done removing ALL prior partitions that could be deleted. The TPM 2.0 module was also cleared. Quicken performance now consistently matches the troubleshooter fix results. I will assume screen management issues are a result of problematic coding.

@retird - you may want to contact the Office of the President…. you will get a call back - it is the way they operate.

scroll all the way to the bottom of this page:

https://www.quicken.com/about-us

@retird - i have ALWAYS received a call back when submitted that OOP link. done it 3-4 times over the past few years.

@tbf47 - or is it a function of a distributed process model, meaning Qucken has to test for every single permutation of machine that a user owns; if we all accessed the software in the cloud and maintained our data there, would this issue exist? (I am not advocating for this, but one of quicken's issue is that there is limited standardization of PCs used by its user community so isolating issues can become a challenge.)

Well I never do any updates when they first come out. I have not done the last 2 updates yet but startup and OSU is slower than slow now.

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user since DOS. The program itself seems to run Ok for me but I did not buy the program to avoid writing something down. I bought it to reconcile my banking accounts every morning, and to catch any thieves as quick as possible. When it was direct connect to my accounts that worked Ok other than when a bank was down, or Quicken itself was broken. However as soon as it went to web express connect the long update delays started. Now those updates can be a day behind. Quicken staff always blame someone else, you see it in their answers. BUT I do have a solution. I built a spread sheet in excel. It takes me less time to update it than to sit here and see Quicken do its upload paces 2 or 3 minutes of "Waiting…. Waiting….. Waiting….. Downloading…. Processing…." then nothing updates. Yet I already know there are updates that should have downloaded because I have looked at my bank accounts in their webpages. So sad for Quicken staff - my auto-renewal at Quicken is turned off, and come the end of this renewal - I am gone from them. Besides - the Quicken I have now does a poor job of opening all the old Quicken files to look for something archive, and if I go more than one year Quicken does bog down. On a scale of one to 10, the program is now a 2. However we see that lack of concern for clients' needs almost everywhere now. It is a sign of people wanted to be paid without performing. It includes the owners of Quicken who could fix this if they wanted to.

@retird, I don't know where Quicken's servers are or who operates them. I don't know if there are mirrored severs in multiple locations to minimize response times. I don't know if it runs on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or some other cloud SAAS platform. Keep in mind that Intuit washed its hands of Quicken seven years ago. In 2016, Quicken was acquired by H.I.G. Capital. H.I.G., in turn, sold Quicken to Aquiline Capital Partners in 2021. Quicken is merely one of 100 corporations in Aquiline's portfolio. Where do you think that puts things like solving Quicken's performance problems or totally modernizing the program on Aquiline's priority list? I'll bet it's not No. 1. Quicken is a vintage application running on an ancient codebase.

It is my understanding that all data eventually flows thru Intuit servers to and from Quicken …

Too aggravating. For too long. I quit!