Will give it a try, thanks. If it works than I won't have to start over
with a new year and balances.

Mike

Thanks for the response. I have done the search and that is where I found
that the archive function was just about useless. I did it anyway and the
size stayed the same and I couldn't find where it removed any transactions.
I was able to find personal checking transactions form back in the late
80's. I was hoping to have all these archived. The only thing is did was
to change all the balances in my accounts to some outrageeous amount. My
checking acct went from having $6,000 in it to being overdrawn by $100,000.
A credit card acct did the same. I figured something went drastically
wrong, so I used a backed up acct and tried it again, same result.

That's why I thought about starting a new year with just the balances and if
I wanted any info from past years just open that acct.

Thanks,

Mike

My Money 2004 was painfully slow on my 900mhz machine until I found an
article that changed everything. It was out on either MSN or TechNet (or a
google search for slow) - can't remember exaclty. It had me change alot of
settings in options, but the two that I remember were telling it not to use a
passport at sign-in and turning off the cash flow charts.

Turn off Money Express:
Go to Tools -> Options -> Bills and Depsits
Uncheck display charts using patterns:
Go to Tools -> Options -> General, checkbox
Remove the cashflow chart from homepage:
Go to Tools -> Options -> Feedback -> Home Page Customization -> Customize
-> remove cashflow forecast

It also had me uncheck many other things that are not essential.

What it did for me was reduce the time it takes to Accept a transaction and
move to the next from about 12 seconds down to instantanious! It is well
worth doing without the extras for me.



"Mike" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, Mike wrote:

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The "archive" function does not normally make much difference in
size. While it removes non-investment transactions before a date, it
does not prune the stored quotes, which is probably the biggest
cause of the size.

There is no single answer.

A really neat way to find prior postings in this group is to use the
Google Usenet Groups archive.

http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search enter words that you
think would be in relevant posts into the "all of the words" box.
Enter microsoft.public.money into the newsgroup box. Consider
selecting Sort By Date.
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See Tools-> Options-> Feedback-> (PersonalizedFeedback)Options

Using Money 2004, my file has grown to over 50mb is size. Tired of slow
response with money. Is there a way to start a new year, say 2005, and
import just my accounts. I don't need the balances as I can imput them
myself.

Also is there a way to turn off the cash flow forecast graph that appears on
the bottom of each account. Whenver I change accounts it takes forever for
the forecasting to be complete. It's bad enough on my desktop computer
which is a 2ghz machine, but completely unbearable on my old notebook which
chugs along at 600mhz. (I know, I know, get a new notebook)

Thanks,

Mike