Quicken 2005 Deluxe [Old Version] review:4 stars (5 months and no problems..) - I upgraded five months ago from Quicken 2001 Basic to Quicken 2005 Deluxe and have had no problems. Everything converted fine and I gained a lot of functionality. I have no complaints at this point. I do hope however that Intuit takes to heart the flood of criticism from legions of loyal users. I hesitated upgrading due to their reviews. Their opinions do make a difference. I hope that Intuit will seriously address their concerns with next year's offering. 5 stars (no problems here) - I have been using quicken for my years; like others I was forced to upgrade from 2002, which made me mad, and nervous reading all the negative reviews here. However I really like the appearance of the new quicken; I have been able to download transactions from my credit card, actually I could not get it to work on 2002, but it is almost flawless here (for some reason it did not pick up international transactions). I do bill pay through my online bank, so I have no experience with that. Otherwise all the data (8 years) was converted without a problem. (I did try Msft Money but found all sorts of problems converting data). So I say that probably there are more happy people out there with this product but they are just not leaving reviews. Good luck. 2 stars (Buyer beware!) - I have used quicken for years, mostly just to manage my bank account and household expenses. In the past I have encouraged others, including my own children, to buy and use Quicken. But no more! They have taken a wonderful, easy to use product and turned it into a nightmare of captive registration, popup advertising and other annoyances. I hope the managers at quicken read the Amazon reviews and get a clue. They certainly don't make it easy to give them feedback on their web site, so I don't really think they care what their customers think. Potential buyers should note carefully the fact that quicken has only a 1-1/2 star rating. There is a reason for this. Buyer beware. I gave them a two-star rating because once you get everything installed and working, the product does it's job nicely. It is the installation, captive registration and advertising that I objected to. Captive registration? I absolutely could not use the product until I had "registered" on their web site. This was really outrageous! I had already paid my money. I didn't want them to have my name and address email and phone number. But I had to give it to them or the product didn't work. This was not a polite rquest for registration. This was an in your face, you can't get out of this screen until you fill it out ... correctly... registration. Then they tried to force me to keep my data on their web site. No way! Ads would pop up during installation; they dropped commercial icons onto my desktop without permission. I had to remove them. Maybe some folks would appreciate these "features" and use the services of lenders, etc whose icons they conveniently dropped on my desktop. But I didn't appreicate it.
Quicken 2005 Deluxe [Old Version] Features:
Invest (Investment)
Computer software (programs)
Accounting (Account)
Personal Finance (Financial)
CD
Plan for financial goals by viewing net worth over time
Over 100 feature improvements on popular tools
Connect instantly to bank, credit card sites, and 401(k) providers
Manage finances by setting up automatic transactions
Quickly and easily track investment holdings

Quicken 2005 Deluxe [Old Version] is the CD-ROM version. The full version can be purchased by clicking on the "CLICK HERE TO ORDER" button below for around 59.95USD.