2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 Needs work, 2004-03-06
I've got a couple of checking/credit card accounts with Bank of America, Sears, and a broker account with Ameritrade. _Not_ _one_ of these is handled properly by Quicken. Sears Bank is not even in the list of supported financial institutions. Each attempt to download the transaction history from Bank of America results in a generic error ( "Your financial institution has rejected your request", OL-301-A ), although both Quicken and the bank claim to support each other. With Ameritrade it _usually_ works, but I have to review every single transaction before accepting it, because Quicken sometimes duplicates them ( and then adds fictituous entries to compensate for the inconsistencies ).
On a side note, I have to admit that MS Money does not work any better for me.
4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
 Do not upgrade!, 2004-02-18
I consider myself to be a Quicken "power user" and have been since 1991. Quicken Premier 2004 is awful. I just upgraded from 2002 Deluxe (skipped 2003). My PC has a Pentium 3, 1 gig speed, 256k memory. It's not enough to run this product. The program is such a memory hog that the PC locks up continually. I need to open the Task Manager, close everything that is running in the background, and can have no other apps open in order to work in Quicken. The changes to the interface in the securities accounts are drastic, unnecessary and not user friendly. Entering securities transactions is much more troublesome. You can't hide the Quicktabs bar anymore, thereby losing a lot of screen space. My custom toolbar is gone and you can no longer create custom icons for the toolbar. To recap, too much of a resource hog, no longer user friendly (and I am a CPA) and less available customization. This is an upgrade?
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
Don't even think about it!, 2004-02-10
I first bought Quicken Basic back in 2000, upgraded to Quicken Deluxe 2002 and loved, simply loved, tracking my quite modest bank accounts. Then, with the thought of "new and improved" flashing through my mind, I bought a copy of Premier 2004, not knowing what lay ahead. It installed OK, but I couldn't open any data files from the old system, and to top it off, my computer basically blew. I'm going to have to reinstall everything. Call it a coincidence, but I'd had no computer problems whatsoever before loading the Quicken CD-ROM. Even XP's "System Restore" didn't work.Be forewarned, especially if you're running Windows XP. Intuit/Quicken has royally screwed up on this one.
 Works Great, 2004-01-26
I was using a free Quicken version that cam with my computer and upgraded to Quicken 2004. It was easy to load and I can now download all of my information directly from my bank(s) and my broker. What a great tool. I have an older computer and occasionally it locks up when I have too many windows open. Otherwise it works great!
4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
 I've Got $17 Million!, 2004-01-26
I just installed Quicken 2004 Premier after having used Quicken 99 for several years, then a brief stint with Money which I found infuriating. I had high hopes for the simple interface I came to know and love with older versions of Quicken. This version reminds me of Money. Like Money, it's online account synchronization is flakey at best. Upon setp, it connected with my bank, downloaded my transactions and reported that I had -$1.5 million in my checking account and +$18.5 million in my savings account. It probably goes without saying, but... not even close.
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