Hi Lee,

 From the outset I should mention that I have no experience with Quicken,
so you could argue that I have no business even entertaining or 
answering your question.
However, I do have some experience with similar programs,including web 
trading
 plus general knowledge of PC problems.

There are a lot of unknowns "floating" in the background and the more 
info you provide,
the better it is to address certain problems,
What kind of PC are you using.Specs on CPU memory etc.Browser used.
As a rule,this kind of application,financially related,should be used on 
a dedicated
PC or at least a dedicated partition.
Both,for security's sake as well as performance,any extra programs 
should be avoided.
Only anti malware programs and preferably ones that are not memory or 
resource hogs.
No general internet browsing on this drive,partition or user account.

To address you question:
Problem 1.
No update on transactions.
1.This depends on several things:What is the update frequency on those 
accounts?
It depends on their servers and also what level of update frequency you have
for your accounts.IOW what level of service is provided with your account?
Full service accounts cost more and have instant updates,lower level 
accounts update
at set time intervals.
2.You may be loading (browser) cached pages.In that case Quicken sees no 
change
and resolves as N/A.

You may want to set your browser to delete all browser cache on close.
Also set to look for new pages when opening.
Simply doing a refresh of the page might help.
Check if Quicken has a cache component that either needs to be refreshed 
or possibly
even must be deleted now and then.

Problem 2. and 3.
Both seem to point at either high memory or CPU usage.
Open TaskManager and see which processes use all that memory or CPU.
Keep an eye on your AV or anti-malware programs as well.
Their settings may cause this too.
If it's Quicken,try to limit all unnecessary processes and other 
programs to lighten the load.
For large data base access you do need a fair amount of RAM.

I hope this helps a little.If my comments are inappropriate or 
redundant,my apologies.

Peter Ekkerman.


Lee Kefauver said the following on 27/11/2007 7:54 PM:
> Quicken problems
>
> ==================
>
>  
>
> I am using Quicken 2006 Premier Release QA5 under Windows XP Pro Sp2.
>
>  
>
> Problem 1.
>
> It happens fairly frequently that transaction downloaded from brokerage
> firms show up with N/A in the Cash Amt column, leaving the Cash Bal as if
> noting at all had happened.
>
> This happens most often with sell transactions from Scottrade, but can
> happen (as far as I can
>
> remember) with other types of transactions and from other sources (e.g.,
> schwab).
>
> When this happens, it becomes impossible to reconcile the Quicken account
> with the statement received from the brokerage firm.
>
> When I see that this has happened, i.e., that the Quicken transaction list
> contains one or more
>
> transactions (usually sells) with N/A in the cash amount, I try to
> change/edit the transaction so that the actual amount is shown and accounted
> for. This never succeeds. I always have to
>
> insert a new transaction, verify that the Cash Amt is not N/A, then delete
> the old transaction,
>
> and then change the date of the new tranaction to be the same as that of the
> old transaction which was deleted.
>
>  
>
> I would like to know:
>
> (1) why this happens;
>
> (2) how can it be prevented;
>
> (3) is there an easier way of fixing it when it does happen.
>
>  
>
> Problem 2.
>
> More often than not, when I go the securities list and scroll down to find
>
> a specific security and then click to review its transactions, etc.,
>
> Quicken freezes and I can only get out by ctrl-alt-del and relaunching
> Quicken.
>
> Is there a fix for this?
>
>  
>
> Problem 3. 
>
> Often, when I click on something in Quicken I get the expected hour glass
> pointer,
>
> but it flickers for several seconds before it becomes stable and returns to
> the usual
>
> pointer. I suspect this is caused by having too much data stored. Any ideas?
>
>  
>
> Thanks in advance for any info and advice,
>
>  
>
> Lee Kefauver
>
>  
>
>  
>
>
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