QUICKEN 5 FOR WINDOWS, RELEASE 5.0e
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This README file explains how to update your version of Quicken 5
for Windows to release 5.0e, which corrects a number of problems 
in earlier releases, including the problems with Subcategory Merge 
and File Validate.

For a detailed list of changes included in this release, go to the
end of this file and review the sections titled "CHANGES MADE TO 
QUICKEN 5 FOR WINDOWS IN THIS RELEASE" .

The following products can be updated:
Quicken 5.0 for Windows
Quicken Deluxe 5.0 for Windows Floppy
Quicken Deluxe 5.0 for Windows CD
Quicken Financial Suite CD


STEP 1: CHECK THE RELEASE NUMBER OF YOUR VERSION OF QUICKEN
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1. Start Quicken 5 for Windows.

2. Choose "About Quicken" from the Help menu.  

3. Look at the lower right corner of the window.  
   If it says "Release 5.0d" or lower,  proceed 
   to the next step.
   If it says "Release 5.0e," you already have the latest 
   release and you do not need to install this update.

4. Exit Quicken 5 for Windows. Also, if you have Quicken 
   Deluxe or Quicken Financial Suite, exit all applications
   you are currently running (such as Quicken Home Inventory, 
   Finance 101, or Quicken Financial Planner).


STEP 2: DOWNLOAD AND COPY THE UPDATE FILE
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1. Create a directory called UPDATE.  

   Win 3.1:  From File Manager, choose Create Directory from 
   the File menu, type "c:\update", and press Enter.

   Win 95:  From the Windows Explorer, click the C drive icon, 
   choose New from the File menu, select Folder, type "update", 
   and then press Enter.

2. Through your online service select the apppropriate file 
   to download. Here are the files for the 
   Quicken For Windows 5.0 products:

   Quicken Regular: the file is qw50e.exe
   Quicken Deluxe Floppy: the file is dlx50e.exe
   Quicken Deluxe CD or Quicken Financial Suite CD: the file
   is cd50e.exe

3. Download the update file to your UPDATE directory. 
   
4. Extract the update file.

   From Win 3.1 File Manager or Win 95 Windows Explorer, 
   double-click the UPDATE directory, double-click the 
   update file. In Win 3.1, select Refresh from the Window
   menu. There will now be four files in the update directory:
   UPDATE.EXE, PATCHW.DLL, QW50E.EXE (or DLX50E.EXE or 
   CD50E.EXE), and QW50E.RTP (or DLX50E.RTP or CD50E.RTP)

STEP 2: INSTALL RELEASE 5.0e
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1. Run the update file.

   Win 3.1: From the Windows Program Manager, choose Run from 
   File menu.  
   Then type c:\update\update.exe and click OK.

   Win 95: Click the Start button, then choose Run.  
   Then type c:\update\update.exe and click OK. 

2. Follow the instructions on the screen.  When the Locate System
   to Update window appears, double-click the directory 
   containing your Quicken 5 for Windows program files.  
   For example, if you installed Quicken in the default 
   directory, it was installed into C:\QUICKENW. Find the 
   directory, double-click it and then press Enter.

   When the update program displays this message: 
   "OK to update to Quicken 5 for Windows, release 5.0e," 
   click Yes. Do not change any options.

3. If the update program displays this message: "Patch warning. 
   Old File does not exist," click OK to close the message box
   and continue the update. The update program is trying to 
   update a Quicken Deluxe or Quicken Financial Suite 
   application that you have not installed. 

  

STEP 3: CHECK THAT RELEASE 5.0e IS PROPERLY INSTALLED
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1. Start Quicken 5 for Windows.

2. Choose "About Quicken" from the Help menu.

3. Look at the lower right corner of the window.  If it says
   "Release 5.0e," release 5.0e was properly installed.

4. If it says "Release 5.0," double-check the directory in which
   Quicken 5 for Windows is located and repeat "STEP 2: INSTALL
   RELEASE 5.0e" above.


STEP 4: REMOVE THE FILES IN THE UPDATE DIRECTORY
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Once you confirm that release 5.0e was successfully installed, 
you can safely remove the contents of the UPDATE directory and 
then delete the UPDATE directory.


IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS
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If you have questions about the update process, refer to the 
Intuit Technical Support phone number in the back of your 
Quicken 5 for Windows User's Guide.


CHANGES MADE TO QUICKEN 5 FOR WINDOWS IN THIS RELEASE
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Performance
1. For Windows 95, NT and OS/2, Quicken will no longer take up 
   all of the CPU cycles when Quicken is idle.

CheckFree
1. Email will no longer allow lines to wrap and limits lines to 
   60 characters so they will not be truncated during 
   transmission.

Validate
1. Validate will correct duplicate transaction IDs in an online 
   account.

Online Banking
1. Online Banking now handles error conditions that occur during 
   transmission.

File Operations
1. The message after successfully completing File Restore now 
   instructs users to open the file if no file is currently 
   open. This was done to reduce confusion with the File 
   Restore feature.
2. An error message will now be displayed if File Restore or 
   File Copy fail.

Reports
1. The Copy to Clipboard now no longer drops the first two 
   lines of the report.
2. Reports will now pick up the opening balances of accounts that
   have the Opening Balance as the sole transaction.

Win 95 Shell Extension
1. Quicken now bypasses writing Reminder information to the 
   qwshellx.ini file during start up.  This was done to avoid some
   intermittent GPFs that could be caused by reading in corrupted 
   Reminder information.