Money 2003 vs Quicken?

I installed Money 2003 and it wouldn't let access any secure links (like checking out!)....so I uninstalled it and then did a system restore prior to the time I had installed it.....I had at the time also installed a couple of drivers that are necessary so I thought I would go ahead and re-installed Money hoping that it was possible it was the drivers and not Money giving me the hard time...

Money is now giving me a tougher time....I do not have a .NET account and it will NOT let me open one up....when I go to open up my money program where does it take me...yep, right to where you access the .NET web page...urrgggg...I had always used quicken prior to this and I think I will go ahead and go back to it...

Just was wondering what you all use and why...what do you see are the advantages of one program over the other...I do online banking and need to begin bill-paying because of traveling...we're retired and I don't want to be tied down to coming home once a month to check our mailbox....and paying bills...I have all I can come out automatically....but there are some that won't do that...

thanks, dd

Gheesh, caught me right here...lol...I was not wanting to set up a .NET account....but it is not letting me bypass it....any suggestions...I'm actually stuck between not being able to set one up and not being able to by pass it...I've already re-installed twice...once customizing it which it didn't let me do anything different....I was using money 2000 that came with my Dell so may just reinstall that and use it....

I have no experience with Quicken, so I can't compare. I do have Money 2002 and I love the program. I never set up a .NET account and it shouldn't force you too. Does your bank support online bill payment, if it does you should easily be able to just use their service. I do all my bill payment with my bank, and then export the files into Money.

I'm not sure what Money 2003 offers over previous version, but if the 2000 version works for you and you're happy with it then maybe stick with that.

Of course it will depend on your needs. Here is a PC Magazine comparison Note that you can't just compare "Money vs. Quicken," you have to compare against a particular VERSION of Quicken (Standard, Deluxe, Premier).

I can't give any personal opinion, becaue I have never tried Money, and am still using Quicken 2000. I would definitely be willing to change though, DEFINITELY. One thing I have always been frustrated with, does any financial software package have the ability to handle capital gains wash sales? Quuite simply a lot of what quicken gives you for investment tracking & tax planning is useless to me because it won't handle that, I end up having to keep the "real" numbers in a custom spreadsheet over the years.

Well, I'm back sooner than I thought with the #1 problem I had....I was able to install Money 2003 and of course it was able to pick up all of my old financial things I already had inputed...(don't ya just love $M...)..anyway....tried to access my bank online and of course now I can't....what setting can money be putting into my browser settings to stop me from entering secure sites?.....I have checked within the browser's I use both netscape and IE....

Oh, I was able to bypass the opening .NET passport screen and now have it opening up on my accounts screen the way I want....just need to get the security issue taken care of.....can't even find a phone # to call for tech support...urrrrr.....

Hi...I had done that....I called Money (did you know that you get unlimited lifetime support with Money?)....they were not able to help me....said it is an IE problem...urrrgggg.....feels that my sp1 has been *broken*....windows won't let me download since it shows it's already on my pc....am going to *again* do a system restore back to before I installed money in the first place then just reinstall everything....*they* feel that somewhere since then the encryption was broken...so that should fix it....allll I wanna do is pay some bills....lol...spend some $$$...lol...will let ya know if it works or not....

had to totally reinstall winxp...bah humbag, am not a happy camper here...first thing I installed was money 03....so far everything seems to be working ok...time will tell...dd

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demodebi said:

<< I installed Money 2003 and it wouldn't let access any secure links (like checking out >>

I'm having a difficult time understanding what you are saying here. Are you saying that Money prevents you from accessing https sites using IE or Netscape? Or are you saying that you are having problems getting on-line banking to work with Money??

I've been using the latest version of Money since 1998 and am very happy with it. I never signed up for .NET and certainly did not sign up for the MSMoney on the web. Once you get it up and running, let me give you some advice:

1) Get a zip drive or some other reliable source that you can do daily backups of your money file.
2) Do weekly or monthly burns of your Money backups so that you have them accessible somewhere
3) Do not use the archive feature in Money because then you can't do all of the cool forecasting and other nifty features it has.
4) Make sure you setup an asset account for each of your loans and investment accounts, or else it becomes a pain to track where everything goes.
5) A great resource for Money related questions is the usenet group microsoft.public.money
6) Turn off the advisor and all related ads -- this is easy once you open up the options menu.

Good luck.