If you have the .MNY file(s) from the M99 system you want to review, and a
working M03 installation, I'd certainly try opening them in M03 first. It
will upgrade them. Read and heed the information provided about how your
original M99 file will be renamed and saved. If this works, you never need
look back again. You will have your old files readable in M03 and your new
M03 file as well.

Way too many users have had trouble upgrading files with M03. If this is the
case, things get more complicated. Since you have the workssuite99 CD, my
general recommendation:

1) Install M99 from the WorksSuite99 CD into a different directory from M03.
2) Reinstall M03--unfortunately, this is the only ready way to restore the
file associations I'm aware of. I think there is an easier way and I'd like
somebody who knows it to jump in the thread.
3) Open M99 from Windows Explorer by navigating to the directory you put it
in and double clicking on the msmoney.exe icon, cancel the dialogs for new
user setup, and go to File|Open to open your M99 files.
4) Your M03 file should still open when double clicked on.

"June" <holl5[at]verizon.net> wrote in message
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I don't understand your situation from your post. Here's what I think I
conclude:

Your new machine has Money2003 installed. You've started a new Money2003
data file.

You used to use Money99. You have a bunch of Money99 application files on a
CD somebody made for you off an old hard disk that had Money99 installed,
but do not have an original Money99 distribution CD with the setup routine.

You want to run Money99 from the this hand-made CD, in order to, and here
I'm guessing a lot, gain access to data in a Money99 data file that you
never mentioned anything about having. You want to do this separately from
your Money2003 data file since you now have data in a new file created with
Money2003.

Money99 won't run from the miscellaneous files you have on the CD but cannot
install on your new machine since you don't have the real Microsoft CD with
the setup routine necessary to install them so they would work.

IF all of that is a correct synopsis of your situation:

1) You will likely never be able to make Money99 work again without laying
hands on a CD or copy of the real thing and installing it on the machine. A
working application is a lot more than some collection of files on a CD. The
"lot more" is all of the stuff done by the setup routine to tell your
computer about Money and to tell Money about your computer. If you
absolutely have to have Money99, then you have to go find a CD to install it
from.

2) IF you have a Money99 data file (this will be a .MNY file), and you want
to access the data in it separately from your newly created Money2003 data
file, then Just Do It. Copy the Money99 data file to your My Documents
folder and make sure it does not have the Read Only attribute set, which it
will if you copy it from a CD. Also, be sure and change the file's name so
it does not overwrite your Money2003 data file. If you don't know how to do
this, please get someone to walk you through this who does so you do not
trash your new data file. Once you have both the old file and the new file,
you can double click on the old file and Money2003 will open it, identify it
as a Money99 file, and upgrade it to the Money2003 file format. Note that
this will only work if both your old version and new version are for the
same country. If your old version was, say Money99 for UK and your new
version is Money2003 for US, this will not work.

Good luck. What is "totally Isot"???

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