Disabling Billminder Help
d caswell
thoroughly?
I have Quicken 2002D on a Jazz drive that's not always in the drive at boot
time. I've never used billminder,
never WANT to use billminder and never asked billminder to run at boot time.
However, windows boot
always whines about billminder link not being resolvable if the quicken
cartridge isn't loaded. Lately i can't
even eject the cartridge because windows thinks somone is using it even if
I'm not running quicken or TTax.
The official site has been less than illuminating and I was hoping one of
y'all might have some ideas.
Thanks for any advice.
cas
John Pollard
> Does anyone have an incantation for making billmonder go away
completely and
> thoroughly?
When Quicken is *not* running, navigate to the folder where the Quicken
program is (often QuickenW), double click on "billmind.exe", click
options, uncheck the box "Enable Billminder on Windows startup", click
"OK", click "Exit".
Han Broekman
In addition to John Pollard's advice, let me give mine: Make sure you
have real good backups of your data somewhere else than on the Jaz drive
(there's only 1 z in Jaz). I've had severe problems (several years ago)
with 2 Jaz drives (home and work), which basically caused instant data
loss from the cartridges, as well as the inability to read any
cartridges in the drives. The problems occurred relatively close
together. Hopefully newer Jaz drives and cartridges do not suffer from
the click of death or similar problems, but nevertheless, I strongly
suggest to keep backups in several different places, and keep historical
backups, so you don't restore a backup with corruption.
Just my 2¢ ...
--
Best regards
Han Broekman
(Please answer to the newsgroup only, I will not answer email)
d caswell
billminder.exe link is unavail
and boot will not continue until I hit the OK radio button on the windows
message. I just want
windows start up to forget billminder ever existed... i know i wish i could
'cause it's functionality
i don't want and don't need.
thanks for the effort though. I really do appreciate it.
cas
"John Pollard" <j_po...@nixthespam.mindspring.com> wrote in message
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d caswell
don't know how good the backup is... but i keep 2 sets of back up floppies
and alternate them.
thus i should only ever lose 1 data entry session.
have had to use them a few times too....
I've never turned on billminder. in quicken2000 i'd managed to beat the app
into submission, but i
upgraded and it's not been the same since.
"Han Broekman" <j.bro...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Han Broekman
d caswell wrote:
>
> Thanks for the tip.
> don't know how good the backup is... but i keep 2 sets of back up floppies
> and alternate them.
> thus i should only ever lose 1 data entry session.
>
> have had to use them a few times too....
Floppies are notoriously undependable when you will really need them.
With the prices of hard drives as low as they are these days, I'd
install a secondary drive as a first approach. In addition (or as an
alternative), if you have an older computer that you don't use really
(like my old laptop), hook it up in a little network, and set up it's
hard drive as a mapped drive on your main machine, and also back up
there.
In addition, if something weird happens (and it has for me), and your
data set gets some subtle corruption, you may need to go back to last
week's or last month's backup, so I save multiple backups (I actually
use a CDRW as the main backup, with daily backups for a few weeks, then
weekly and monthly backups saved there - quarterly I burn a CDR.
Irregularly I back up to the laptop. I also should keep a set of
backups of premises.)
> I've never turned on billminder. in quicken2000 i'd managed to beat the app
> into submission, but i
> upgraded and it's not been the same since.
There used to be a way to turn it completely off. The best way may be
to look for the shortcut that starts it in one of the startup folders.
I actually have used Startupcop (I believe from PC magazine) to disable
billminder. The beauty of startupcop is that you can easily re-enable
things, AND you can save profiles of different startup configurations.
> "Han Broekman" <j.bro...@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:3C6EF714...@verizon.net...
> <my original post deleted as an offering to the bandwidth gods>
> > In addition to John Pollard's advice, let me give mine: Make sure you
> > have real good backups of your data somewhere else than on the Jaz drive
> > (there's only 1 z in Jaz). I've had severe problems (several years ago)
> > with 2 Jaz drives (home and work), which basically caused instant data
> > loss from the cartridges, as well as the inability to read any
> > cartridges in the drives. The problems occurred relatively close
> > together. Hopefully newer Jaz drives and cartridges do not suffer from
> > the click of death or similar problems, but nevertheless, I strongly
> > suggest to keep backups in several different places, and keep historical
> > backups, so you don't restore a backup with corruption.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best regards
> > Han Broekman
> > (Please answer to the newsgroup only, I will not answer email)
Just another 2¢ ...
John Pollard
> Been there. Done that. Boot w/o Jaz drive still gets complaint that
> billminder.exe link is unavail
> and boot will not continue until I hit the OK radio button on the
windows
> message. I just want
> windows start up to forget billminder ever existed... i know i wish i
could
> 'cause it's functionality
> i don't want and don't need.
What operating system do you have?
I can think of two possible approaches - others here may think of more.
One, as Han suggested, look in your startup folder. If billminder is
there and it thinks the program is on your C: drive, for example, that
would be your problem. Delete it from the startup folder.
If the above does not work, perhaps you can fool whatever is looking for
billminder. Hopefully the error message tells you the fully qualified
name of the file it is looking for, if not take an educated guess that
it is looking for "C:\QUICKENW\billmind.exe". If you do not have such a
folder on your hard drive, create it. Then copy "billmind.exe" from
your JAZ drive to the (new?) folder on your C: drive. (Double check to
be certain that the billminder options are set to *not* start at boot).
The bottom line of this suggestion is: give it what it is looking for.
This is just a guess, but since your particular arrangement is fairly
uncommon I think, I wonder if you initially installed Quicken on your
hard drive; then later installed it on your JAZ drive - without
*uninstalling* it from your hard drive. If that is what you did, and
neither of the above two suggestions solve your problem, you might want
to consider trying to totally uninstalling - including cleaning out
every trace of Quicken wherever it may be - and reinstalling. Han can
give you chapter and verse on how to do this.