Quicken is not currently the application configured for web connect data?
Bruce E. Stemplewski
Quicken is not currently the application configured for web connect
data.......
No matter what I answer yes or no, the box pops up again the next time I
start Quicken. Any idea what is wrong?
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Bruce E. Stemplewski
www.stempsoft.com
http://ICQ#: 176599859
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John Pollard
> I keep getting a message box in Quicken 2003 that says
> Quicken is not currently the application configured for web connect
> data.......
>
> No matter what I answer yes or no, the box pops up again the next
> time I start Quicken. Any idea what is wrong?
Basically Quicken is saying that it is not the program configured to process
".qfx" files. You can get this message if:
1.) the version of Quicken you are running is not associated with the "qfx"
file extension in Folder Options > File Types
2.) you use multiple versions of Quicken on the same machine - each time you
answer yes for one version, you cause the other version to *not* be
"configured for web connect".
3.) you use Windows NT or Windows 2000, and you are not logged in as
administrator (Intuit says you "may need to login as administrator" to avoid
the message - you may interpret that as you wish).
Bruce E. Stemplewski
1. The qfx is associated.
2. I am using only one version of the software.
3. I am using XP but I am logged in as admin. I can't believe that this is
a requirement!
The thing is I can download my investments and bank accounts without
problem.
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Bruce E. Stemplewski
www.stempsoft.com
http://ICQ#: 176599859
wwp.icq.com/176599859
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Joe Spears
Quicken 2003. The problem occurs because Quicken is changing the file
association with the .QFX suffix. to C:\PROGRA~1\QUICKENW\qw.exe -X "%1".
Note that this is an old (not long name) reference. When you say "yes" in
response to the messagebox the program uses a long file name and changes the
reference to C:\Program Files\QUICKENW\qw.exe -X "%1". I have tried
communicating this with Intuit but they don't get it. While I have upgraded
to to Quicken 2003,I am not running the old versions any more. I also use
their scheduled update feature which could possibly be changing the
reference. The way to verify that this is your problem is to go to Widows
Explorer when you get the message and prior to responding yes. Click on
Tools, Folder Options and look at the advanced button. Click on edit and see
what the "open" reference is.
If you then go to Quicken 2003 and say yes to correcting the problem,
Quicken will change the reference to the long file name. But the problem
will reappear as you say.
I am using Windows XP Professional and not running older versions of
Quicken.
If you learn of a fix, please let me know. My efforts with Quicken support
have been useless.
Joe Spears.
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what is causing it for me, but have no idea how to remedy it...
I can start Quicken in 2 places. Either off of "Billminder" which gives
you the option to start Quicken, or off the shortcut on my desk top. If I
get the pop up when I start Quicken through the "billminder" and I tell it
"yes" to be configured. From then on, starting Quicken with the
"billminder". It will start without the pop up.
Now if I then start Quicken with the shortcut on my desktop. It will show
the pop up each time. If I then go ahead and say "yes" to the pop up that I
started off the shortcut on my desk top. It will never show up there
again. But then everytime I start Quicken off of "billminder" the popups
will show up again there. It's like you are running two different programs
depending on where you start it up from.
If anybody has a clue how to remedy that, it would be appreciated....
Thanks,
John
John Pollard
> I've got the same problem with Quicken 2002, running XP. I have
> figured out what is causing it for me, but have no idea how to
> remedy it...
>
> I can start Quicken in 2 places. Either off of "Billminder" which
> gives you the option to start Quicken, or off the shortcut on my
> desk top. If I get the pop up when I start Quicken through the
> "billminder" and I tell it "yes" to be configured. From then on,
> starting Quicken with the "billminder". It will start without the
> pop up.
>
> Now if I then start Quicken with the shortcut on my desktop. It
> will show the pop up each time. If I then go ahead and say "yes"
> to the pop up that I started off the shortcut on my desk top. It
> will never show up there again. But then everytime I start Quicken
> off of "billminder" the popups will show up again there. It's like
> you are running two different programs depending on where you start
> it up from.
>
> If anybody has a clue how to remedy that, it would be
> appreciated....
Inasmuch as this question comes up frequently in this group, I have
spent a little more time looking into it; I especially concentrated on
your specific situation with Billminder hoping that it might shed some
additional light on the problem (you are the first person I am aware
of who referred to the problem occurring with Billminder). I believe
I may have come up with an answer, but I am going to let you, or
someone else here, be the fiinal determinant of that - because I do
not use Billminder and I do not, otherwise, have the problem. My
apologies for the length of this, but I want to make it as clear as I
can and to give those affected the opportunity to verify my theory.
The message you are getting is caused by Quicken not thinking that its
executable program (qw.exe) is assigned to process files with the QFX
extension. Intuit says, on their web site, that you can get this
message if you have more than one version of Q installed; and I
believe they are correct, but I do not believe that explains all
occurrances of the problem.
I believe that the problem you are having may be caused by another
Quicken problem noted in this group not long ago: Quicken does not
(always) handle long file names (file names longer than eight
characters) correctly - and in this case, I believe that the problem
extends to the handling of the full path name, not just the "file"
name.
When you run Quicken from a desktop icon, the Quicken program name is
set in the "Target" field of that desktop icon's "Properties". When
run this way, if Quicken then asks you whether you want it to be the
"application configured for handling Web Connect data", and if you
answer "yes", Quicken places the fully qualified name you have in that
"Target" field in the "Application used to open" field in (any
folder):
Tools > Folder Options > File Types > (select QFX) > Advanced > open
In my case, my Quicken executable is located in:
D:\Quicken-2001\qw.exe
and that same exact name appears in the Target field of the desktop
icon I use to run Quicken. If I run Quicken from that desktop icon
and Quicken asks me if I want it to be the web connect application, it
updates the file-type-opens-with field with *exactly* the name from
the "Target" property of the desktop icon (and exactly also includes
matching the case of the Target field).
However, if I run Billminder first, and have Billminder start Quicken,
Quicken does not recognize that it is the "application configured for
handling Web Connect data" apparently because Quicken was not started
from the desktop icon, so Quicken constructs its own program name, and
it does it differently, in fact it uses a windows "short" file name
(at least it does when part of the fully qualified program name is
longer than eight characters. So when I run Quicken from Billminder
and answer "yes" when Quicken asks me to make it the application for
handling web connect data, it puts the following name in
file-type-opens-with:
D:\QUICKE~1\qw.exe
Even though the two program file names are equivalent, they are not
"spelled" the same way, and I believe that internally, Quicken does
not recognize that they are the same program file.
If my theory is correct, you "might" be able to avoid your problem by
installing Quicken in a folder whose path contains no folder name
longer than eight characters - and if I were testing this, I would
shoot for names no longer than 7 characters.
I would also try to make all the folders in the path to the Quicken
executable be upper case names, since it appears that "short" file
name folders are usually (always?) constructed with upper case
letters.
As an example, in my case, I would install Quicken in:
D:\Q2001
creating an executable name of
D:\Q2001\qw.exe
And if all that does not work around the problem, perhaps someone here
could devise a script which you could use to start Quicken from the
desktop and another to start Quicken from Billminder; where each
script would update the file-type-opens-with field appropriately
before starting Quicken/Billminder. (You can look for yourself after
each time you let Quicken make itself the application to handle web
connect files: check
Folder Options > File Types > Advanced > Open > Edit > Application
Used ....
after each "yes" answer to see what Quicken has placed there.)
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John Pollard
j underscore pollard at mindspring dot com