Quicken 2014 & 2015 display slowness

Click on the Start Orb and type dxdiag. In the search result list, click on dxdiag.exe.

After it runs (green bar disappears), click on Save Information at the bottom of the window. Save the text file to a convenient location then upload the file here.

You might start by updating your drivers.

Driver Version: 8.15.10.2455
DDI Version: 10.1
Driver Model: WDDM 1.1
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 7/19/2011 15:39:54, 8310272 bytes

There was no shortage of drivers in the DX list. :) Perhaps there's others that are interfering.

Use this tutorial on Clean Start/Boot on both the Services and Startup tab. If there are QB startups/services, leave those but uncheck all the rest except your antivirus (AV). You should have nothing but QB and your AV for this test.

By the way, I'm still using QuickBooks Pro from 1998. I tried a newer version about 2010 and returned it. Too much overhead. There were things running even when QB wasn't. The PC just crawled with QB installed.

RocketJSquirrel said:

Quicken 2014 & 2015 display slowly on my Dell XPS laptop. At program startup, the Quicken window flickers, flashes, and jumps around before finally settling down. Resizing Quicken windows lags badly, with the window frame taking seconds to catch up with the mouse.

My understanding is that for QW2014, Intuit moved from a really old version of Microsoft .NET (like version 2) to a newer version (I think 4). This screwed up Quicken really badly, with all sorts of issues surfacing in addition to display slowness. (E.g., CTRL keys stop working, focus gets lost, etc.)

Not every user sees all the symptoms. Apparently, most users don't see the flickering & flashing that I see. More users see repaint slowness and focus issues.

The Quicken Community has no answer for why this has been happening for the past 2 years of Quicken versions. I wonder if anyone here on the Win7 forum might have a clue.

Hopefully, my hardware configuration will show when you click on it. My Dell has 2 graphics processors, and they both exhibit the same problem with Quicken.

I'm running Quicken Deluxe 2015 on a new machine, noted in my system specs #2, with the same issues you describe. I also experienced these conditions on system #1 in my specs.

I've come to the conclusion that it's Quicken rather then my system.

In as much Quicken is the only game in town for this type of software and the only one my bank supports I have resolved to live with it.

If I could find something to replace it I'd start using it right now. It's unfortunate that MS Money went down as I preferred it over Quicken.

Any feedback from the Clean Boot?