Microsoft Money in Linux - 17Jan2026

[N G]

msmoneysetup_Linux_64bit_FullInstall_17Jan2026.zip

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HLwwc18Cc-1DCRuNEkHHsnqzB_oJCU2J/view?usp=drive_link

- Fixed crashes related to Menu items; File, Import, etc.

- In turn, Subtotals fix is disabled but can be enabled for Sunset (does not work for 2005 UK). This is to use the improved wine builtin comctl32.dll. If anyone prefers the correct Subtotals after Money is installed:

* Go into your home folder, go to .msmoneyprefix/drive_c/windows/syswow64 and rename the old comctl32.dll to comctl32.dll.bak; it is about 4MB. 

* Copy the comctl32.dll from /home/username/msmoneysetup/moneyinstaller/ into the syswow64 folder. The replacement one is 1.1MB. 

If anything goes awry, just rerun Install.sh.

[-Kevin N]

Hi Nathan,

Confirming 17Jan2026 fixes access to the file system. 

File > Import > Downloaded Statement > the 'Import a File' window now opens as expected.  Nice!

Yep, the subtotal thing on the Account List is back but TBH, I never really used that view.  

Instead, I use an Account Balances report with a shortcut to it on the menu bar.

Clicking on an OFX file from Pocketsense now initiates an import. Thanks for that.

It looks like you've done it again! Brilliant!

Can't thank you enough. :)

-Kevin N.

[N G]

Excellent! Here’s to another year!

[Gerardus Doedee]

OS: Xubuntu 22.04 VM

Windowing system: XFCE

Wine version: 10.0

Money “version” installed: msmoneysetup_Linux_64bit_FullInstall_15Jun2025

Upgraded wine to version 11.0

Money from FullInstall_15Jun2025 NO LONGER RUNS

Deleted FullInstall_15Jun2025 ~/msmoneysetup and ~/.msmoneyprefix

Testing msmoneysetup_Linux_64bit_FullInstall_17Jan2026.zip

Extracted /msmoneysetup and prepped

Ran ./Install.sh

Installation finished successfully

Money runs as expected (including the Subtotals offset issue)

Question: I noticed that ~/msmoneysetup/winetricks/winetricks.sh points to the winetricks 2022 script rather than either of the 2 winetricks 2025 scripts. Is there a reason for this?

($WINESETUP/winetricks/winetricks-2022)

Cheers,

Gerardus

[N G]

Hi Gerardus!

Glad it worked as expected. If you want the Account Subtotals you can try out copying the comctl32.dll file into .msmoneyprefix.

As for the older version of winetricks, long story / short story lol.

I have been following the progress that the winetricks guys have been making on their upgrades, but they still haven’t released a new version, either for late 2025 or 2026 so far. For our purposes currently, there is nothing significant in their recent changes that affect installing and running MS Money.

The reason I went to the 2022 version early last year was because the IE7 installer was broken in the 2025 version of winetricks. I was able to repair the IE7 part of winetricks-2025 so I used it for a time. 

Then, when it became apparent that  32bit support was going away (and not present at all in MacOS), I had to find a way to get IE7 installed for Money even though the IE7 installer won’t run in a 64bit environment. Once I solved that problem, it really doesn’t matter which winetricks we use. Winetricks-2022 is selected because it was the last one I used in troubleshooting with wine 11; I’ll probably put it back to winetricks-2025, but I really would prefer a newer winetricks be released. In any case, we only need support for msxml3, msxml4, vcrun2005, and tahoma fonts. I don’t/can’t use IE7 from winetricks so I just grab it from archive.org, just like winetricks does. 

If the methods used by winetricks changes for those 4 packages in a meaningfull way then it’s a priority to start using a newer winetricks. But for now, for our purposes, there isn’t any difference between winetricks-2022 and winetricks-2025.

Because of the changes to comctl32.dll I had to re-learn some things about what does what. Wine now separates the functions between v5 and v6 for comctl32. This is related to why I haven’t figured out how to fix the subtotals in Money2005. I think Money Sunset uses v6 and Money 2005 uses v5. 

If you look in the registry/defaults/ie7dlls.reg between the new msmoneysetup and the one from June, the current one has fewer lines; the file is about half the size. These registry settings help Money find what it needs from IE7. IE7 isn’t actually installed; you can’t open IE7 and surf the web. But the pieces (dlls) from IE7 are what counts, and ie7dlls.reg tells wine which dlls from IE7 it should use versus the builtin dlls that come with wine. 

Between September and now I had been using the incremental wine releases as we closed in to wine 11, wine 10.15 and up. It seemed like Money would hang more often on exit than previously. If I walked away for 15 minutes or so and left Money running, it would probably hang on exit. After reading about the changes made to comctl32 and some of the subsequent battles I had with it, and also how stable it seems now, I think it’s better to run with the wine builtin version of comctl32. I’ll continue to monitor the progress made on comctl32 in wine, hoping that things continue to improve with time. 

More than you asked for, just thought I’d share a little. 

[Paul Marsh]

Hi, I've recently got interested in the Linux info on running Microsoft Money as I have a laptop that is too old to run Windows 11 as it has no tpm2.0. I am new to Linux but have installed Mint 22, but my skill-set is very basic at the moment. I would be interested in any guidance on setting up MS Money for Dummies on Linux  if anyone can point me to a step-by-step guide as I have picked up that I possibly need Wine and IE7. I have been running Money 14.0.120.1105 happily in the UK for years, currently on a Win11 desktop but would like to carry it around on the laptop with Linux when not at home. One last question is:- Can you move the *.mny file easily between Windows and Linux?  Regards Paul

[Bill Sticker]

Purbec, there is a guide here https://microsoftmoneyoffline.wordpress.com/2025/02/22/running-money-on-linux-os/comment-page-1/#comment-21838 and talks through how to use the script Nathan, who posts the script here, has written. This is the way to get MS Money working on Linux. The script detects common versions of Linux e.g. Mint 22. There are some isssues with file compatability versions of MS Money (often need to convert between major version upgrades) but there is a UK sunset version 2005 which you select on installing with the script; I think that's what your version 14 is, but check and make a backup of your money file before doing anything as it may need converting. There are a lot of tweaks and special extras that are needed to make Money work on linux through Wine and the script takes care of those. The .mny file is the same on windows as on linux, just copy it over; I put it in my Linux home directroy which is mapped as z:\home\yourname\Documents from within MS Money. My money file gets stored in Dropbox so its available wherever Linux, Windows. Good luck

[N G]

Hi Paul,

In addition to what Bill said, take a look in the Guides folder in msmoneysetup. There is a QuickStartGuide that walks you through the basics as well as the FullGuide that is pretty comprehensive.

With that said, there have been some wine bugs identified with the 2005 versions of Money: Money hangs when attempting to reconcile accounts and maybe crashes when importing transactions.

Go ahead and download the zip file at the top of this topic and give it a go. I've attached the QuickStartGuide so take a look at that. And if you run into any problems attach your logs 

in a post here.

Good luck!

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