Review by RenaissanceMan

My computer recently crashed due to a lightning strike so I’ve been rebuilding. I thought it would be a great time to upgrade my quicken as I went to Windows 7 on my machines.

I was dreading having to order the package and wait the couple of days to get it in the mail because my significant other wanted this little project done in one day. I was very happy to find that this product was available for download and at a very competitive price.

THE DOWNLOAD:nnI purchased this and then got an e-mail to download it right away. It was installed in 15 minutes. It’s only about 60MB download and it came down really fast over broadband. If you’re on dialup, Amazon has a little application that you download that can help you do downloads overnight and if you drop your connection, you can pick up where you left off. Still, if you use dialup, you might just want to order the software.

Overall, I was happy with the downloadnnPRODUCT:nIf you’re a quicken user, this is just quicken. They did a facelift to it so that it looks somewhat like Office 2007, bigger buttons at the top.

I’ll tell you what I liked right off the bat:na) I was using Quicken 2005 and integration with my Bank was very very seamless with Quicken 2010nb) Since I lost my data from the lighting strike, I wasn’t able to test recovery or upgrading files (I’m sure that’s standard)nc) I liked that the default is a transaction is in one line (in 2005 transactions by default took too lines)nnOverall, it’s Quicken - it keeps track of my books and integrates nicely with my bank. I like it. I can’t say I love it because I don’t love balancing my checkbook and no matter what software was out there, it would still be a chore to do this job that needs to get done. I have to say, Quicken makes it about as easy as you possibly can.

Get it, use it, it runs on Vista and Windows 7. It’s stable and reliable. Don’t get hit by lighting like my pc or all bets are off.