[Comphelp] Windows XP

[Phil Arcuni]

Earl,

I suspect the error message is a ringer for "that old stuff will not work
with our beautiful new Windows". Assuming your friend has the original disk,
the new computer has no way of knowing that it had been installed before.
(Unless maybe it is a floppy which was written on during installation.)
Really old apps do not work well with XP. I had to abandon several of my
favorites. According to magazine reviews all but recent versions of Money
are inferior to any version of Quicken. Money has caught up, so buy a new
one. There is probably a rebate for doing the upgrade.

My bank upgraded to newer versions of Quicken, and I had no choice but to
upgrade. They stopped supporting the older ones. Intuit probably forced the
new versions on the banks. I hate the newest version. It is cluttered with
junk I do not use and cannot remove, and I get sales messages continually
from Intuit. I guess one can get used to being abused.

Phil Arcuni
Key West

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ERoseM@cs.com>
To: <comphelp@usps.org>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 3:47 PM
Subject: [Comphelp] Windows XP


> A friend and member of the squadron is also Treasurer this year for our
> sailing club.
>
> He has a new laptop with Windows XP Home Edition.  He prefers to use
MSMoney
> rather then the later versions of Money but XP will not install the
earlier
> version.  The error messages suggests that XP will not install software
that has
> been installed on some other computer.
>
> Anybody know a way around this?  He got Money 2000 or 2002 with the laptop
> but prefers the earlier version; its much simpler to use.  Microsoft no
longer
> even supports the earlier version 3.0 of MSMoney and there's no
possibility of
> buying it now.
> Earl Rose
> Tulsa Squadron