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# Wednesday, August 29, 2007

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Money Plus

Purchased Microsoft Money Plus today from the company store.

Installed and launched it. CRASH.

Um, ok, that sucks....

Next logical thing to do... search the Internet.... and I found this.

Money Plus does not work when Data Execute Prevention is enabled, which it is by default on Vista.

Ugh... I can't believe it shipped like this. Hopefully it will be worth the upgrade.

Now, off to reboot my PC with DEP off so I can Activate it.

Rant | Software
Posted Thursday, August 30, 2007    Permalink    Comments [6]  View blog reactions

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Thursday, August 30, 2007 6:11:28 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
I would like to know how this install turned out for you, Omar. I got pestered about that the other week in MS Money 2007, and I then got a pestering email from my bank--Bank of America--that a service I pay for is going away and that I will need to upgrade.

I am really curious as to what is next for this product, as I am hoping they finally bring back some of the stuff they removed when they removed Money Central--the system tray applet. I liked getting bugged about my bills, and the last 2-3 versions of Money have not had it.
Jason J. Thomas
Thursday, August 30, 2007 7:18:54 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Does the MS Money team have a blog? I searched, but I was unable to find one.
Myron A. Semack
Thursday, August 30, 2007 9:44:50 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
I didn't have any of the install issues. However I noticed after activation that Money indicated it was only licensed for 365 days from the activation date. Does that mean that Money will disable itself after a year to force future upgrades?
Brian Hoyt
Thursday, August 30, 2007 9:04:38 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Wow, that's absurd. I'm so glad I gave up using Money. Is it worth risking the security of your computer for?
Dan Crevier
Sunday, September 02, 2007 4:31:04 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
HI, have you got family in egypt (Shahin)?in Tanta?
Shahin Omar
Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:28:56 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
If you were using Money 2007, it's not worth it.

I installed it over the weekend, and it's exactly the same, except they added "Insights", which, for old Money users is exactly the same as Money Express -- a tray app that monitors your bills -- that they made completely useless several versions ago by requiring Passport, and then dropped.

For what it's worth, I had the crash also, but it happened just before my annunal "wipe-my-laptop-and-reinstall-from-scratch" event, after which I had no problems. Seems like the DEP thing is somewhat random.
Sean
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