I bought Money Plus Deluxe and all seems to be well for the moment regarding
the shutdown process.

Money Essentials is crap. Hopefully someone might find this before wasting
their money.

I wouldn't count on the Money Frills solving the graphics problem. And not
every app uses the graphics hardware the same way. I have seen numerous
instances of one-offs of an app having bad karma with specific graphics
drivers.

Also, sometimes--Nvidia--running the latest graphics drives can be worse
than running an older version.

Good luck.

"BTW-nc" <BTWnc[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Thanks. I will have to pay more $$ I guess.

Re the graphics, everything is up to date. I have run a LOT of software on
this computer and don't remember a similar problem.

Oh well, we'll see what happens with Money "Frills" as you call it.

Tnx again.

"Dick Watson" wrote:

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Money Essentials (MEss) has been so critically de-featured that few posters
here will even play with it to support other users, much less use it from day
to day. The best many of us can give you is educated guesses.

Re. will not quit/gobbles CPU, if here are any options for turning off
backup on exit, I'd try those. Sometimes real Money runs off in the weeds
when backing up on exit. It's done so for at least two versions now and the
Money team hasn't seen fit to fix it. One difference that may be
relevant--when Money Frills runs off in the weeds on exit, it uses no CPU.

As to the screen corruption issue, this REEKS of a graphics card driver
problem. Have you checked for graphics driver updates?

"BTW-nc" wrote:

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Win XP SP3, everything installed after a system recovery disk. Athlon dual
core, 4GB ram. Downloaded Money Essentials and installed it.

I put two transactions in Money a few minutes ago, then quit the app. Now
the process is still running and gobbling up 50% of my CPU cycles and I
cannot re-start it of course because the system thinks it is already running.

Second problem: Money often times picks up screen artifacts from other
applications that happen to be on the desktop at the same time. Window
pollution is the best way I can describe it.

I am SORELY disappointed in this software thus far. I should have stuck
with Money 2002.