Re: Menu Bar

On Sun, 29 Jan 2023 14:44:09 -0800 (PST), John Pollard
<[email protected]> wrote:

>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=


Thanks once more.