Re: Menu Bar

On 1/30/2023 8:17 AM, Ken Blake wrote:
> 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.

Nothing I tried worked, including chatting and speaking with two "techs" 
at Quicken. But having just done a clean reinstallation of Windows, it's 
now working fine again.



-- 
Ken