From: CSM1 on 1 Feb 2010 11:10 Steven Latus <slatus@*delete_this_part_to_reply*optonline.net> wrote in news:4b65b7d7$0$22515$607ed4bc(a)cv.net: > On 01/31/2010 9:06 AM, Andrew Rossmann wrote: >> In article<jv87m5d7n1km82c2r8q0dho2jvtqf71728(a)4ax.com>, >> mred(a)invalid.invalid says... >>> >>> Upgraded to Quicken 2010 Premier from Quicken Premier 2009 yesterday. >>> Using an Hp desktop w/MS Vista Ultimate 32 bit operating system. I >>> experienced zero problems. Wanted to report positive experience. >> >> Updated from 2007 with only one issue noted so far: The backup option is >> messed up. What is so hard about simply copying a file??? When I try to >> back up to a CD-RW, it says it cannot write to it (I ended up copying my >> hard-drive backup to the CD-RW manually). Also, it appears it can no >> longer break up a file, so no more backup to floppies!! >> > > Floppies? What are those? ;) > Little 3.5 inch plastic squares that hold no more that 1.44 Megabytes and are very slow. It takes 451 of them to store what you can put on one CDR or CDRW. Even Windows XP can write to a CDR if you have a burner in your computer. -- CSM1 http://www.carlmcmillan.com
From: XS11E on 1 Feb 2010 13:08 CSM1 <nomail(a)nomoremail.com> wrote: > Steven Latus <slatus@*delete_this_part_to_reply*optonline.net> > wrote in news:4b65b7d7$0$22515$607ed4bc(a)cv.net: >> Floppies? What are those? ;) > > Little 3.5 inch plastic squares that hold no more that 1.44 > Megabytes and are very slow. > > It takes 451 of them to store what you can put on one CDR or CDRW. > > Even Windows XP can write to a CDR if you have a burner in your > computer. Even Windows 3.1 can write to a CDR. -- XS11E, Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project: http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/
From: Bob Wang on 1 Feb 2010 20:54 Carl: Actually, my IBM ThinkPads had 3.5" ED Floppy drives that held 2.88 MegaBytes. I still have a case of unused 2.88's I'd stocked up on when the format died :-) Bob http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk >>> "CSM1" <nomail(a)nomoremail.com> wrote in message news:Xns9D12677833DDEnomoremail(a)74.209.136.88... Steven Latus <slatus@*delete_this_part_to_reply*optonline.net> wrote in news:4b65b7d7$0$22515$607ed4bc(a)cv.net: Little 3.5 inch plastic squares that hold no more that 1.44 Megabytes and are very slow. -- CSM1 http://www.carlmcmillan.com
From: CSM1 on 1 Feb 2010 23:28 "Bob Wang" <BobWangBlog(a)Gmail.com> wrote in news:hk80li$v27$1(a)news.eternal-september.org: > Carl: > Actually, my IBM ThinkPads had 3.5" ED Floppy drives that held 2.88 > MegaBytes. > I still have a case of unused 2.88's I'd stocked up on when the format > died In that case would you like to have 16 boxes of 5.25 inch disks? Some are 1.2 MB, some are 360K. Most are brand new never used. -- CSM1 http://www.carlmcmillan.com >:-) > Bob > http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk >>>> > > "CSM1" <nomail(a)nomoremail.com> wrote in message > news:Xns9D12677833DDEnomoremail(a)74.209.136.88... > Steven Latus <slatus@*delete_this_part_to_reply*optonline.net> wrote > in news:4b65b7d7$0$22515$607ed4bc(a)cv.net: > Little 3.5 inch plastic squares that hold no more that 1.44 Megabytes > and are very slow.
From: Laura on 2 Feb 2010 19:41 Steven E. Harris wrote: > mred <mred(a)invalid.invalid> writes: > > >> Wanted to report positive experience. >> > > I noticed that Quicken 2010 takes about twice as long to start up as > 2007, but the computer on which I'm observing this lag is arguably no > longer modern. > > Does Q10 have the option to Close the company file so that when you launch the program again you have to select a company file? If this is the case, then closing the company file before exiting the program should speed up things the next time you open the program. (This is a QuickBooks trick that might work with Quicken.)
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