Re: Menu Bar

On Sun, 29 Jan 2023 13:28:58 -0800 (PST), John Pollard
<[email protected]> 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.



Thanks very much once again. Will do, a little later today.