Re: Menu Bar

On Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 3:28:59 PM UTC-6, John Pollard wrote:

> 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.

I should have thought a bit more before posting that. 
While it will work, there is a much simpler way: Create a shortcut to the .QDF file you want Quicken to open.

And when you asked if you could "erase Quicken's memory" of the last used file, I spoke too soon.

With Notepad - or similar; 
any file editor that will NOT make any changes (such as line-breaks or page breaks) you do not specifically intend:
Open  C:\Users\YourWindowsUserName\AppData\Roaming\Quicken\Config\quser.ini
At the beginning of the file, you should see something like this (the file names are fake): 

[RecentFiles]
1=C:\QuickenDataFile-1
2=C:\QuickenDataFile-2
3=C:\QuickenDataFile-3
4=C:\QuickenDataFile-4

Those would be the last 4 files you opened in Quicken (which you see at the foot of the Quicken File menu).  
You can remove the file names - but leave the number and the equal sign -
then Save the file, and Quicken will have no memory of the file(s) it had open. 
The end result should look like this:

[RecentFiles]
1=
2=
3=
4=