Using a computer to manage your finances is essential if you have a small business or even your personal finances. There’s a lot of commercial options available for like Mint or arguably the most popular – Quicken. And some people just use Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. If you don’t want to spend your hard earned money to manage your money, there are free programs too like GnuCash or Microsoft Money Plus Sunset Home and Business. What is your favorite finance software? Or maybe you stick to traditional paper and pencil – either way, leave a comment and let us know! Personally, I use Quicken. I’ve been using it ever since Microsoft dumped MS Money and you could no longer use it to pull from banks. I tried out Mint for a bit but it didn’t have enough features and, I really didn’t like the MINT terms of service and the fact all my data was out there. So yeah — Quicken mixed with a little MS Excel. :) Just waiting for a nice online option for Quicken…. It’s a free download for you to play with anyway. Might give you something new however, there is that saying: If it’s not broken, don’t fix it. You would need to do a backup of your older MS Money files and then do an uninstall of the app. From there do the install of the later version – MS Money Sunset and import the file. If you don’t like the new version, you should be able to uninstall the Sunset version again and re-install the older version you like. That is IF you have the old software. That might be a problem…. Another option might be to install the MS Money Sunset on a different computer you have access to and then import your MS Money file. Check it out before you go all-in. Granted, if it’s not broken, don’t fix it. :) If you have a great process and it works for you with an older install, perfect! The only issue I would worry about is if you didn’t have the install. It could be a mess if you had an issue or wanted to upgrade your PC but didn’t have that old version of the Money software. Might want to think about upgrading at that point. Anyway Carol, just keep in mind even if the “Auto-download” doesn’t work with MS Money, you can still manually goto your bank and download your transactions. Just check Chase and they still allow you to download history for MS Money. It will probably vary from bank to bank but just something to keep in mine. I did prefer the older versions however. -s Comment
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