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davidg4781

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This is kind of a little project of mine I'm trying to figure out.

I'd like to run Quicken for Windows on my M1 Mac. I tried installing through CrossOver but don't think I can figure it out. I tried using a wrapper of Windows 10 and that didn't work. Now I'm trying Windows 7. I'd rather not mess with downloading an ARM version of Windows if I don't have to.

Here's the back story and maybe someone might have another solution. My 401k provider has a download link to download transactions and load them into Quicken. This worked with Quicken 2007 (and maybe another older version) but does not work for the current and last version of Quicken for Mac. It does work for Banktivity. I've emailed them several times saying this feature isn't working but they say it's not a supported feature (why have the link and why update it when the site was updated?). I have a feeling I'm getting the customer support part, not the tech part, and they just don't have the Mac portion turned on. So I'm trying to do the Windows version.
 
I'm in the same boat - need Home & Business, and there's no Mac version. And in general, every time I checked, Mac version lacked key features compared to Quicken on Windows like 401k support. I'm running it in Windows ARM in Parallels Desktop. It's excruciatingly slow for me, likely in part because I have heavy 250MB file with transactions from 2009. And in general, Quicken for Windows is very archaic, it's built on some UI library from the 90s (if not late 80s). So, I imagine how much crap and overhead takes place with layers and layers of abstraction and decades of some garbage code before it has to be emulated from x86 into ARM. This makes running it very annoying, but there's no alternative. If anyone knows a better way to run Win version of Quicken on an M1 Mac, please share.
 
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I'm in the same boat - need Home & Business, and there's no Mac version. And in general, every time I checked, Mac version lacked key features compared to Quicken on Windows like 401k support. I'm running it in Windows ARM in Parallels Desktop. It's excruciatingly slow for me, likely in part because I have heavy 250MB file with transactions from 2009. And in general, Quicken for Windows is very archaic, it's built on some UI library from the 90s (if not late 80s). So, I imagine how much crap and overhead takes place with layers and layers of abstraction and decades of some garbage code before it has to be emulated from x86 into ARM. This makes running it very annoying, but there's no alternative. If anyone knows a better way to run Win version of Quicken on an M1 Mac, please share.
Curious, what do you need in there for 401k support? I was able to do some editing and get my 401k transactions to load but they won't update automatically. That's more of an issue with my 401k people not paying the Quicken for Mac fees.
 
I'm curious as to what this software gives you. I normally use the reporting at Fidelity and it's awful for analysis, particularly because they don't timestamp transactions so that you can't assemble the buy and sell easily.

I'm a bit surprised at the performance issues as I've found that running Windows 11 on ARM via Parallels gives me better performance than my i7-10700 Windows system. I assume that the same is true for UTM which I'm running now but I haven't tested it.

Quicken TurboTax offers cloud versions of their tax software now. Is that an option to do this stuff?
 
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