"I recently did the update too and started to add thing to my spending
tracker. As soon as I start to use it my program freezes and I either have
to shut down or remove the program. Please tell me there is a solution

I am very dissappointed with Microsoft. The 2008 "upgrade" is worthless. I
think that's why they didn't put "2008" on the box. It takes me a good 10
minutes to have the program up and running. While it gets itself going,
everything else on my computer is at a complete stand still. I haven't tried
removing/reducing the spending tracker yet. I am curious to see how that
helps me.

In microsoft.public.money, RLC wrote:

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The new Money Plus update may fix that. After the download runs, try
opening Money by right-clicking the launch Icon and choose
RunAsAdministrator.


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I noticed the same thing. I "upgraded" from Microsoft Money 2003 to Money
Plus (2008) and noticed a terrible lag when loading the home page. I
narrowed it down to the spending tracker and removed it, since the older
version is no longer supported by some financial institutions that I use.
This is ridiculous, I mean how could my old 2003 version have loaded the same
info in about 0.5 seconds, but the new version takes five to ten seconds.


"CJ" wrote:

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I experience the same problem. I had 2006 and run very slow, but when I
upgraded to 2008 it is at least 4 times slower. It is unusable.

And, "real time calculation" is not an excuse to be slow. C'mon. this people
should spend some time improving this software that is bad and I regret I
bought the upgrade. I did not see any improvement on the existing bugs.


"R McCulloch" wrote:

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it's too bad this is broken so bad, i'm going back to 2007 =(

On Sep 16, 10:09 pm, "R McCulloch"
<rmccull...[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
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I have it down to the point where each item i add to the spending
tracker adds 8 seconds to the load time. just crazy.

also, i just timed it. It took exactly 1 minute 2 seconds to show the
home page after clicking on it. it used to load in about 2 seconds
flat. my new computer (the one with "Plus") is a Quad Core 3Ghz
machine, up from a 2Ghz single core system.

I'm thinking it should be called "Money Plus 1:02"

how they didn't catch this during beta testing is baffling. is there
any feedback mechanism that will let you directly talk to MS re Money
issues?

That's interesting. I was wondering if anyone else would experience this.

My experience is quite similar to yours. I found that by reducing the number
of items
tracked in the Spending Tracker I was able to speed-up the process slightly.
(Oh so
slightly) Removing the Spending Tracker completely sped up the process
considerably.
But, not enough to warrant continuing to run that version with the reduced
functionality.
That, and I found the reintroduced Bills Alert interface somewhat clunky and
poorly
thought out.

So. Back with 2007. I'll see what 2009 brings.

Regards
R McCulloch


"CJ" <melodicskys[at]gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1189957164.167686.176960[at]50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
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On Sep 16, 1:56 am, "Bob Peel, MVP"
<bob_p...[at]kiandra.freeserve.co.uk.INVALID> wrote:
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Yeah i agree it does it in real time but what i'm saying is in 2007 i
had the exact same categories and a computer at least 4 times slower
than what i have now and it took less than a second.. now it can take
close to a minute for the home page to display. something is wrong.

My understanding is that the spending tracker has to recalculate in real
time hence the delay. Better to remove from Home page.

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Regards
Bob Peel,
Microsoft MVP - Money

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"CJ" <melodicskys[at]gmail.com> wrote in message
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I just "upgraded" from Money 2007 to Money Plus. If I include
"Spending Tracker" on my home page Money Plus takes quite a long time
to load the home page. This is on a 3Ghz Quad Core processor with 2
Gigs of RAM. Nothing else I run behaves this slowly. Money 2007 did
not have this issue.

Any ideas besides removing it from the home page? I would miss it very
much, one of the most useful parts of Money in my opinion.