Re: Menu Bar

On 1/29/2023 4:28 PM, John Pollard wrote:
> On Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 2:42:43 PM UTC-6, Ken Blake wrote:
> 
>> I just rebooted Windows (for an unrelated reason). When Quicken
>> started, I went to the menu bar. The problem is back! Nothing happens
>> when I click anything there.
>>
>> I hate to bother you again, but can you remind me of what I should do
>> to get 46.12 again? My ancient, decrepit 85-year brain's memory is
>> failing. And what, if anything, can I do to make it doesn't
>> automatically update to 47.7 on its own.
> 
> Earlier, when you went online to your Quicken account, you downloaded your
> Quicken install file (I think the name is Quicken.EXE).
> 
> Once you have uninstalled Quicken, you can just run that downloaded
> Quicken install file.
> 
> That install file should install just as it did before; so if you allow Quicken
> access to the internet during the install (as you did before),
> Quicken should automatically upgrade the installation to R46.12.
> 
> 
>> Also as I said in an earlier message, when it worked, it asked me to
>> choose the file to open (it usually doesn't ask, just chooses the
>> current file, the last one that was closed). I guess it asked because
>> the last one that was closed no longer existed?
> 
> Correct.
> 
>> Can I erase its  memory of the last file that was closed
>> so it will ask me again.
> 
> I don't think so; not without access to the Quicken File menu.
> 
> Instead, create a desktop shortcut to your Quicken executable file.
> When you right-click that shortcut, click Properties and look on the Shortcut tab.
> you should see something like this in the Target field:
> 
> "C:\Program Files (x86)\Quicken\qw.exe"
> 
> Edit the Target field and suffix the Windows path to your Quicken data file.
> When you finish, the Target field should look something like this:
> 
> "C:\Program Files (x86)\Quicken\qw.exe" "C:\QData\MyQuickenData.QDF"
> 
> [NOTE: the quote marks belong be in the Target field.]
> 
> Click OK.
> 
>  From that point on, when you double-click that desktop icon,
> Quicken should start and open the file you specified -
> C:\QData\MyQuickenData.QDF in my example.

Shortcut only requires the full data file path with quotes if it 
contains a space.