Money 2005 on Windows 7

meths · 9 Dec 2009 at 13:27

Anybody using Money 2005 on Windows 7?

I've tried to set it up recently but when making a budget it's just giving out wrong answers e.g. it says there's a surplus of income when there isn't.

It also doesn't automatically import and group payees correctly. I've opened the statement downloads using notepad to check the formatting of the payee info and from statement to statment it is identical but no matter what I try Money can't see this.

I'm at my wits end with this program but really like the forecast feature as I like to see my future finances plotted on a graph.

Has anyone got it working correctly or could someone recommend a program with a similar forecast feature?

Coldzero · 9 Dec 2009 at 13:45

Could try running it in the virtual XP Mode.

meths · 9 Dec 2009 at 14:10

Coldzero said:
Could try running it in the virtual XP Mode.

Yeah, was thinking about that.

I got 7 Pro with the student deal so I'll download it later and give it a go.

Artic7 · 9 Dec 2009 at 20:17

A mate of mine is running it on Windows 7 and it works fine
I know when he installed it,a update box came up,however you had to restart Money 2005 in Admin mode, in order to get the update to download and install.

meths · 9 Dec 2009 at 22:48

I've found a workaround for the payee problem.

It seems to be occuring because it's not automatically updating the alternative payee descriptions when I combine items on the register.

I'm having to delete and new entries from the register and manually add the payee details then re-import my statement.

Not ideal but at least it's working now.

meths · 10 Dec 2009 at 00:54

Now it doesn't seem to be ignoring anything I put on the Excluded Names list.