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

I see that Quicken has a snazzy new logo! Has that helped improve the program's performance for anyone?

@DRHayes

I don’t know if this is about Q’s lack of concern or its developers’ utter inability to do anything about it. And remember, Q is now owned by a company has 99 others in its portfolio. Q is not anywhere near the top of any priority list.

November 14th - One step updates taking 15 minutes to half an hour. It appears to be hanging up trying to update Quicken's servers not in the download of data from 3d parties. Is the problem back at the host. As an old data center manager who has used Quicken since the 80's, I have to wonder if there has been a change in hosting platform or network provider.

I noticed the same issue with my Windows 11 version of Quicken Classic Deluxe (Version R52.33, Build 27.1.52.33). Once signed into my Quicken file, it would take over one minute to display the request for my Vault password and the account data downloads were taking too long. In an effort to reduce the time, I tried various posted suggestions with no luck. I ended up correcting the issues by completely uninstalling Quicken, rebooting, and then cleaning up my Windows registry of all Quicken-related entries using the program CCleaner. Once that was completed, I rebooted my PC once again and did a fresh install of Quicken. That seems to have done the trick. The wait time from entering my file password to the screen requesting my Vault password is down to 23 seconds and the account data downloads are much quicker.

curiously, I don’t have an issue with crashes. It’s the sloth-like performance.

Today is 11/27/2023 and Quicken (classic starter edition) is still slooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww

Is there anyone at quicken looking at this?

Hello community,

As a non-boomer (I'm 34) math major, engineer, computer gal, I can tell you I've been using intuit's Mint financial tracker since maybe 2007. Mint is the best financial tracker I've ever found, shows all my transactions (even if pending) almost instantly no matter the operating system or mobile version, etc. updates quickly (literally fully functional in a few seconds each time, even if it's been months between uses). I use it to set and track budgets, reconcile accounts, see spending, investments, assets, it's all one one spot and it all talks.

October 31 of this year, they announced mint is going in the garbage can at the end of the year, with no alternative. Queue heartbreak. It's "merging" with credit karma, which is just a garbage ad program to get you to open cards or loans, I've tried it out again recently in my hopeful hunt for a Mint replacement and there's no utility there.

This left me desperate for a replacement for 17 years of data and a way to move forward. It is important to me that the new solution have a mobile component, as I'm using this for personal finances, and I do much of that in hours that should be non-waking. In my hunt, I've tried Empower, "You need a budget" (ynab), and most recently, purchased monthly subscriptions to both quicken simplifi and quicken classic. Empower does not offer the utility I need, it's no where near as powerful as mint. "Ynab", a joke. Simplifi wants to be mint, but my transactions don't show up for many days, meaning by the time I categorize them, I've forgotten the amounts to be split into each category (simultaneously, I can open mint and BAM, right there). Simplifi doesn't let me set the levels of budgets, schedule upcoming bills, see my cash flow, provide insights on spending and allow me to use their graphs like pivot tables like I always have in mint to display the trends I'm looking for.

Which brings me to quicken classic. I was sure it would be the answer. So far, I've been nothing if not disappointed. I've spent hours on end getting all my accounts entered, transactions updated, and data just present enough to give it a real college try. My findings are as follows:

Every time I open quicken on a PC, it loses its damn mind. 10 minutes or so of updating ("syncing") my accounts and transactions, though it usually changes nothing from the previous boot. I have gaming PC that I built myself, (continuously upgrade as needed) is fully updated, I can promise you it's not an old hardware or OS issue. WHY SO SLOW. I know as a non-boomer, I'm inclined to impatience with slow technology, but COME ON this is insane, especially since I'm paying a monthly fee.

The "bills" I enter on PC won't display on the mobile or web apps, leaving me tethered to one PC.

The "budgets" I create on PC won't display on the Mobile or Web apps, what the heck good is this thing anyway?

Transactions take 5-7 DAYS more to show up on quicken classic than on mint. They even show up sooner on quicken simplifi. What the heck? How come the absolutely free software (mint) can do it better than the subscription paid simplifi, and how come two separate paid services through the same company see them at such different times?

I can't help but agree that it's possible quicken big wigs have decided the quicken user base is aging and therefore, why continue the upkeep on the software? They've already made the bucks they're going to. But I've got decades left of personal finances. What do I do? Hopefully someone sees the need and fills it with assume properly written code, I'd pay a pretty penny for a real product that works again. Considering sitting down and just starting to code my own solution, might be the fastest route considering the general lack of concern that seems shown by quicken based on this thread.

@Kurt3

On a brand new PC running Win 11 Pro with 32GB of RAM, Q was the first application I installed. I should have timed the One-Step Update not with a stopwatch, but with a calendar. That the company apparently lacks the competence to fix this is an abomination.

Keep in mind that Quicken is one of 100 companies in the portfolio of Aquiline Capital Partners LLC (as of 2021). The portfolio includes bank holding corporations and many other companies that are far larger than Quicken, which is tiny in comparison and likely a very low priority.

Some updates can take over 90 minutes, depends on who knows what. Microsoft Money was 10X more reliable than "Quicken". They can't fix this slow update issue but had no problem jacking up the annual subscription charge. Again.

I was hoping to get to end of this thread with a resolution, but nothing. Quicken is becoming so frustrating but there's nothing out there with these features. Really wish they could get some robustness back to the software that was rock solid for a couple of decades... sad.

no problem on my Mac

I haver never used Windows… always Mac since about 1997