Windows offers a large number of alternative financial programs that will import QIF, OFX or raw Quicken data. All users of financial software should keep extra backups by exporting data in the QIF or OFX (Open Financial Exchange) formats to make it easier to load valuable data into a different program. If you can get access to a working Quicken 98, export all your data in Quicken Interchange Format (QIF), which most financial programs can import. Quicken does have a ' Quicken 98/99 Registration Tool' on the web, and this is your best chance of getting a number that works. At that point you should have switched to a different package, or moved to Quicken 2004, for which support was dropped in April this year. Quicken brings out a new version every year, and all support for Quicken 98, was dropped in 2004. I have phoned Quicken support, who cannot offer a practical solution. I cannot do this as Quicken is no longer supported in Europe. I have loaded it on a new PC, but the software tells me I must register it or it will terminate. I am unhappy because I can no longer access 10 years' data in Quicken 98.
