Windows Installer pops up when trying to backup Quicken

[Guest]

Every time I try to backup Quicken (2005), the windows installer pops up and
wants to install the Quicken program. I have to close and cancel it 3 to 4
time before it will stop. HELP

 

[Guest]

Every time I try to backup Quicken (2005), the windows installer pops up and
wants to install the Quicken program. I have to close and cancel it 3 to 4
time before it will stop. HELP

Well here we are a year later and the same symptoms have shown up for me
with Quicken2006. After 3 agonizing weeks goinng through Quicken help no
solution has been found and Quicken wants me to contact Microsoft to fix the
problem.

Quicken has worked for several years on this computer. I am using Windows
XP Professional with an Administrative account and a User account.
Quicken2006 will back up properly from the Administrative account but not
from the User account. My programming background smells an improperly set
security access. Adding the User account to the Backup Group does not help.

Although Quicken2006 is useable this way it is a bit of a pain. Wonder if
their development department ever tried to backup from a User account?

 

[Leythos]

Quicken has worked for several years on this computer. I am using Windows
XP Professional with an Administrative account and a User account.
Quicken2006 will back up properly from the Administrative account but not
from the User account. My programming background smells an improperly set
security access. Adding the User account to the Backup Group does not help.

Although Quicken2006 is useable this way it is a bit of a pain. Wonder if
their development department ever tried to backup from a User account?

I have never found a clear way to run Quicked or QuickBooks with all
functions accessable under a Limited User account on Windows 2000, XP.

In the case of Home users, we setup an account that is Admin and one
that is User, when doing anything that requires Admin (Administrator
level account) they don't surf, play, etc... When they want to play they
use a User account.

It would be nice if Quicken and Quickbooks were rewritten to permit ALL
of their functions to work as a Local User.

 

[venus]

Use this and your problem is fixed
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290301

 

[Guest]

Use this and your problem is fixed
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290301

Dear Venus -- A beautiful solution! It works!
Many Thanks!!

Dear Leythos -- I cannot tell from your post wether this would solve your
problems but thank you for the moral support in my evaluation of poor
programming from Quicken. How can they say their program is approved for
Windows when it does not work as an application in a User Account?

Thank you both.

 

[Leythos]

Dear Venus -- A beautiful solution! It works!
Many Thanks!!

Dear Leythos -- I cannot tell from your post wether this would solve your
problems but thank you for the moral support in my evaluation of poor
programming from Quicken. How can they say their program is approved for
Windows when it does not work as an application in a User Account?

The Installer Clean Up fix would not change the permissions so that
QuickBooks (as an example) would run in Local User mode, it would still
require Local Administrator level.

While I was not seeing the "Installer" issue that you are, I guess I
improperly assumed that it was the same "Permissions" issue that I see
with many accounting apps on users computers where they are not local
administrators.

As for how they can get away with it - well, as long as consumers
continue to purchase those apps without returning them, they will
continue to skate around the issue of permissions.

I have one Pharmacy application where the updates have to be installed
as an Admin, then you have to run the app once as an Admin before it
will run as a Local User, but it won't run reports unless the user is
given FULL PERMISSION to R/W/E/D in the entire Program Files tree as
their app creates new folders in that tree (and not just inside their
own application directory). They also claim it's Microsoft Certified and
to follow Microsoft standards for programming and security