In microsoft.public.money, Danielle wrote:

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There is a free downloadable trial. But when you buy the upgrade, I
suggest you get the CD.

M07 will be available in a few short weeks, all evidence indicates.

"Danielle" <Danielle[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Dick,

Thanks for all of your help. You've basically come to the same conclusion
that I have. My wife and I are tired of fighting with it. We've decided to
purchase Money 06. But again, thanks for taking time to address my problem.

(Bill Gates is evil.)

Thanks again,
JP

"Dick Watson" wrote:

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My thoughts (others might have better ones):

I think your only direct hope is to find out from the OEM how to do what the
technician did except to restore only Money. If the OEM doesn't provide an
application restore CD or similar, this will be very hard. I'm thinking your
restore missed something/mangled something, but there is really no way to
tell what that I know of nor simple way to get around short of reinstalling
the application. (Some restores fail because they won't restore over files
that are in use so part of an application gets newer files, say, from the
restore and parts don't. Since there are lots of shared files, many things
Money needs may be in use without starting Money.) If you know somebody who
has an M05 installation CD, that'd also work. IF you had a way to install
Money from anything besides the trial version, then uninstall/reinstall
should not require you to pay anything.

Your alternate hope is to:

a) do a much more selective backup of your data alone
b) re-do the system restore
c) restore the backed-up data
d) put everything on that isn't in one of the two above categories.

I understand why you might find this a bad choice. But if your OEM doesn't
support individual application restores, you are in a corner. Remember: the
applications you get FREE with the machine may be worth just about that much
compared to the real things.

Beware that once you get a clean M05 installed you will likely have to do an
Internet Update to get the M05 service fixes before your (presumably
up-level) restored data file will make happy with it. (See
http://umpmfaq.info/faqdb.php?q=177.) I thought this might be your issue
until you reported on the sample file diagnostic test.

"Danielle" <Danielle[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Money came preinstalled on my laptop. I created a backup of my entire laptop
a few weeks ago because I was getting the screen repaired. In the process
the repair tech wiped the hard drive and restored to factory settings.

At this point Money was on the laptop (it came that way from the factory),
and it worked just fine. Later I restored my hard drive from the backup CDs
that I created, and money stopped working.

When I try to open Money, I get the two error messages mentioned in the
first post. "Unable to initialize a required Money component. Please
reinstall Money
from your original product disks." and then "Windows cannot find 'C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Money 2005\MNYCoreFiles\checksku.exe'. Make sure you typed
the name correctly, and then try again. To search or a file, click the Start
button, and then Search."

Same thing happens when I try to open the Sample Data File.

I don't want to uninstall and reinstall Money because I don't want to have
to pay for it, since it came free with my laptop. I'm trying to figure out
how to fix it.


"Dick Watson" wrote:

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I can create the temp file. However, I had to change the clock back to 2005,
so when I uninstalled/reinstalled Money 2005 and tried to login with my
passport, it failed--because I forgot to change the clock back! I found the
answer here:

http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/891338/

Microsoft was able to login and verify my dowload purchase and it is running
fine now..
Thanks,
Todd
"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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Please clarify how you reinstalled Money. Do you have System Restore CDs
that came with the laptop? Application Restore CDs?

Can you open the Money sample data file (typically something like C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Money 2005\sample.mny) by double clicking on it from Windows
Explorer?

I think (hope?) your question is a lot more about how to get the application
back correctly installed from whatever means you were using to do so than
about Money.

"Danielle" <Danielle[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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But I didn't purchase 2005. My laptop came with the full-up version free
.... no purchase necessary.

In microsoft.public.money, Todd wrote:

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What happens if you try to create a new Money file? Name it "temp"
for example.




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Sorry Cal I posted this under the wrong thread so I'm reposting here for
others as well..

I'm trying to reinstall(system crash with previously purchased version)
Money 2005 from the Internet download and followed all of the instructions,
but when I try to login with my passport ID to verify my purchase (which is
set to active and enabled on the MS billing page) I get an error that says
"Your sign-in information could not
be verified. Go online, and then reenter your sign-in information" I've
logged in online and still receive the error. I've checked my firewall and it
is allowing all traffic through. I've uninstalled money and reinstalled but
still getting the same error. Any advice is greatly appreciated.


"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, Danielle wrote:

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No new charge. You will need to put the same Passport that you used
when you purchased Money 2005 upgrade on a file (not necessarily
your real file) to get it to work.

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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I don't have the CD. The full version of Money (i.e. not the trial version)
came preinstalled on my laptop at the time of purchase.

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Is there any charge for aquiring and installing Money 2005 from this site?
I don't want to have to purchase what I already have.

Thanks for your help.

In microsoft.public.money, Danielle wrote:

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I assume that you are saying that you restored from some sort of
drive image.

I suggest you reinstall Money 2005. If you have the CD, use that.
Then open the sample.mny file, and make sure that the version is not
the trial version, and that you have version 14.0.*.1105. Then
File-> Open your Money file.

If you don't have the CD, see
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;889930

I recently restored my hard drive from a backup that I made a few weeks ago.
When I did Money 2005 stopped working.

When I attempt to start money, I get 2 error messages and then Money closes.
The first says,

"Unable to initialize a required Money component. Please reinstall Money
from your original product disks."

When I click OK, I get a 2nd error message that says,

"Windows cannot find 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Money
2005\MNYCoreFiles\checksku.exe'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and
then try again. To search or a file, click the Start button, and then Search."

Money 2005 came preinstalled on my laptop, so I cannot reinstall from my
product disk.

I found this support article on the error, but it only addresses Money 2002,
2003, & 2004. http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;313374
I've tried Methods 1, 2, and 4, but it didn't resolve the problem no luck.

Can anyone help???