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Hi Mike, not sure if you're still wrestling with this -

I followed the steps in the original post. Downloaded those files, and
edied SMRTINET.INI to patch all URLs including fidexp2004DLX.ini to point
to http://localhost/money/ . Edited fidexp2004DLX.ini with all feature
expirations occuring in 2049. Patched SMRTCONN.DLL with a hex editor as
per instructions to point to http://localhost/money/smrtinit.ini? . Set
up a virtual directory in IIS (I already had IIS on the machine) named
Money and pointing to the directory holding the two downloaded files.

Then did steps 5-7 as described above, getting Money 2004 to download the
"update" from my own PC instead of from Microsoft. For you, instead of
the file:// URL path, I might suggest using IIS and a true http:// path.
That way you can look in the IIS logs to see what requests Money is making
and if IIS is serving them.

- Erik

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:08:31 -0400, Erik wrote:

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Would you please post specific details of your changes? I'd like to see
where I went wrong.

Thanks.

Mike

TobyI <eaemtxy02[at]sneakemail.com> wrote:

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Thanks - this worked 100% for me on Money 2004 Standard!

Notes in case it helps anybody else:

It didn't work on the first try, until I realized I'd pointed the IIS
virtual dir to a wrong directory level. The IIS logs showed a 404 on
Money's attempt to hit smrtinet.ini. Strangely, Money itself didn't
report any failure for that update attempt, so it took me a while to track
that down. But after that it worked perfectly for all the online services
even with the computer date set currently.

thanks!

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:32:34 -0700, TobyI wrote:

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Built my test machine and tested thing. As long as I keep the date less
than 1 September everything works. When I change it to today's date, the
quote update is lost (of course) and the Fidelity download gets an error.
It does connect though.

I used a file:// format rather than http:// and the hack did not seem to
mind.

xvi is nice -- the Unicode is not available in Hedit that I was using.
Thanks for the link.

I think I am going to wave a white flag and move on to plan c.

Thank you kindly for sharing this with me.

Mike

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:32:34 -0700, TobyI wrote:

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OK. I am going to build a test machine and try this again. However, I
think, as a backup, that I will also start planning a migration of one of
my M2004 to M2008.

Thanks.

Mike

On Sep 3, 3:58 pm, MikeV06 <m...[at]mycomputer06.invalid.com> wrote:
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I don't believe so; I expect they are skipped over by the Deluxe
version.

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You won't see it using a regular scan unless you text search can do
UTF-16 (Unicode). This is different from ASCII in that each character
is followed by a NUL (0) byte (for ASCII anyway). Try XVI32:
http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delph...vi32/xvi32.htm

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Editing the URL (which is in Unicode) is quite simple since it has
quite a long query string ("?prdid=%s..." etc), and you just have to
fit your site and the path into that length. You have two options:
1. Rename the entire string and make it exactly match the host, path
and filename. You can make the path expand out so that "smrtinet.ini"
is exactly at the end of the string.
2. As indicated in the earlier message, fill in your preferred host,
path and filename, and put a "?" immediately after the "smrtinet.ini"
filename. Web servers will ignore everything after that if just
serving a regular file.

MVP

On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:49:06 -0700, TobyI wrote:

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Interesting.

Are the entries in SMRTINET.INI other than fidexp2004DLX.ini required?

I have scanned all the program/money/system dll's and none of them contain
the link you mention. I looked at smrtconn.dll for any variations but found
none.

Even if it were there, hex editing the dll url to point to another site
would mean that the two urls need to be equal. That is unlikely. Unless of
course, you have a way to do that too.

Arggg ... thank you for the possibility though.

I do not use passport.

Mike

On Sep 2, 12:14 pm, MikeV06 <m...[at]mycomputer06.invalid.com> wrote:
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If you are of the hacker skill set, you can do the following (applies
to Money 2004 Deluxe):

1. Download and save to your own web server/web host somewhere:
a. SMRTINET.INI from http://www.microsoft.com/money/headl...e/smrtinet.ini
b. fidexp2004DLX.ini from http://www.microsoft.com/money/headl...exp2004DLX.ini
2. Update your SMRTINET.INI file entry for "fidexp2004DLX.ini" to
point to your web server/host location.
3. Update the absDate entries in your "fidexp2004DLX.ini"
4. Patch Money's SMRTCONN.DLL (with a hex editor) to point from
"go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?prd=" to "yourwebserver.example.com/
smrtinet.ini?..."
5. If your online service is already disabled, change your computer's
date back to pre-Sep 1st.
6. Run Internet Update.
7. If necessary, change computer date back and re-run update to check
fix.

(I don't think this will help if you use Passport for your
passwords..)

Thanks,
Money Valued Partner (MVP)

Well, I ignored the request to update figuring that I did not use money
online for transactions. Yep, today I cannot download quotes or my Fidelity
transaction.

I like Money 2004 and Money on my Ipaq 2215. It is not the cost of the
upgrade, it is the hassle of getting everything working as smoothly as it
now works.

One option is to upgrade to Deluxe 2008 and UltraMoney (or whatever it is
called for the PDA). I just know I am going to have problems (never
upgraded a money product that did not cause problems).

Does anyway exist for me to keep using Money 2004 and still be able to
download my Fidelity transactions and get daily quotes?

My assumption is the answer is NO!

Any advice on how to make the switch with the least pain?

Thanks,

Mike