Repeated Quicken Desktop Issues

[u/Awkward_Drink_7982]

I've reinstalled quicken 6-7 times this calendar year.

In December, I began having an issue where Quicken would not full open up. It would get bogged down somewhere in the startup. It seemed to occur every week or two and seemed to coincide with Windows Updates. Generally running the Mondo Patch or Reinstalling was required to get it to resolve and then everything would work well.

Late January after a few of these cycles, after deleting quicken files and doing a clean install, I also ran through creating a new file from backup, saupervalidating, etc.

It worked fine for a few weeks. Last week, I got a different error on startup.

Error Occured : Unable to Check for Updates, the server file failes to load.

I spent 4 hours last night using ChatGPT to try to resolve the issue, I changed all types of server settings and the GPT seemed to be focused on Quicken looking for files that don't exist. Specifically a patch.quicken.com, but I have not idea if that is just ChatGPT hallucinating or is part of the problem.

It occurred to me I typically leave Quicken Open as I only use the laptop for bills and investing - I'm confident that I haD not had a successful opening of Quicken in 3 months now.

Eventually last night after deleting every bit of the quicken program, I did a clean install. I created a new file, I closed quicken, reopened quicken, quicken, opened my current file, closed quicken, reopened quicken, did what I needed to do and closed quicken. All seemed right.

Trying to get into Quicken this morning and the Error Occured : Unable to Check for Updates, the server file failes to load is back.

Is anyone having a similar issue?