Getting Quickbooks to work under Virtual PC V7

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marcsmi@cox.net - 28 Jan 2005 00:22 GMT

I own a legal copy of Quickbooks Pro 2004. It cost me a pretty penny
and now I want to run it on my PowerMac G4. It installs fine, but
when I go to start it, it flashes the opening image and then closes
immediately with no error, warnings. I have 1GB of RAM, which I've
allotted both 256 and 512MB of RAM (and 8MB VRAM) with the same
problem.

I hear Quickbooks may be written so as to not work on Virtual PC. Is
this true? I certainly hope not.

Marc

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Steve Jain - 28 Jan 2005 01:16 GMT

>I own a legal copy of Quickbooks Pro 2004. It cost me a pretty penny
>and now I want to run it on my PowerMac G4. It installs fine, but
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>
>Marc

Intuit may not specifically have written Quickbooks to fail under VPC,
but they won't take any steps to fix issues with any Windows version
of any Intuit program.

Its unfortunate, but true....unless they're had a recent change of
heart.

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Barry Wainwright - 28 Jan 2005 05:50 GMT

On 28/1/05 12:22 am, in article
1106871748.927654.4990@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com, "marcsmi@cox.net"

> I own a legal copy of Quickbooks Pro 2004. It cost me a pretty penny
> and now I want to run it on my PowerMac G4. It installs fine, but
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>
> Marc

This is not true - I know of other people using QB04 on VPC without problem.
It is likely to be a problem in the installation of quickbooks itself rather
than a problem in VPC.

Try deinstalling then reinstalling QB04.

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marcsmi@cox.net - 28 Jan 2005 08:00 GMT

> On 28/1/05 12:22 am, in article
> 1106871748.927654.4990@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com, "marcsmi@cox.net"
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> Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out:
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I tried installing Quickbooks Pro 2004 four times. It doesn't want to
work. Ideas?

I'm running Panther 10.3.7 and Virtual PC V7.0.1 on a Dual 1.25GHz G4
Powermac with 1 GB RAM. I've tried running Virtual PC on 256MB, and
512MB modes with no success.

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Barry Wainwright - 28 Jan 2005 09:46 GMT

On 28/1/05 8:00 am, in article
1106899233.754856.209220@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com, "marcsmi@cox.net"

>> On 28/1/05 12:22 am, in article
>> 1106871748.927654.4990@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com,
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> Powermac with 1 GB RAM. I've tried running Virtual PC on 256MB, and
> 512MB modes with no success.

What version of Windows?

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marcsmi@cox.net - 29 Jan 2005 01:46 GMT

> On 28/1/05 8:00 am, in article
> 1106899233.754856.209220@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com, "marcsmi@cox.net"
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> Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out:
> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>

I am running Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 installed
(i.e. the latest and the most updated system for a PC).

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John McGhie - 29 Jan 2005 06:37 GMT

A failure at the splash screen stage can indicate that there is a problem
with the licence.

Since the licence may be buried in the registry, and they won't tell you
where, try this:

1. Create a new virtual PC.

2. Make sure the other PC is not running.

3. Make sure your Internet is up.

4. Install only Windows.

5. Install only QuickBooks.

Any better?

On 29/1/05 12:46 PM, in article
1106963160.197147.142770@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com, "marcsmi@cox.net"

>> On 28/1/05 8:00 am, in article
>> 1106899233.754856.209220@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com,
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> I am running Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 installed
> (i.e. the latest and the most updated system for a PC).

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marcsmi@cox.net - 30 Jan 2005 20:40 GMT

> A failure at the splash screen stage can indicate that there is a problem
> with the licence.
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> Consultant Technical Writer
> Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410

Okay ... I got it to work!!! I just took a simple version of Windows
XP Pro with SP1 and installed Quickbooks Pro 2004 and it came up fine.

I bet you it that Quickbooks is having a problem with some of the
security updates or possibly service pack 2, which was what I had in my
intial Virtual PC installation.

Go figure, there's always a problem with Microsoft's software. They
never seem to get it right. Guess that's why I'm using a Mac from here
on out.

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