[This page is the old archived posting. The current page is here:.] Quicken is a package that works pretty well, but the manufacturer has a tendency to periodically block functionality. For example, Quicken 2006 has been unable to download updated stock prices since April 2009. Matlab pdf function. Quicken 2006 itself installs on even the latest Windows 10 (2016) just fine. [As an aside, it is just amazing that Windows 10 has kept compatibility alive for old software - Quicken 2006, as well as the SendKeys method used by the script below! Kudos to Microsoft!] There is certainly no technical decision to disable automatic stock price updates - it is just a marketing push, so make people upgrade even if they do not desire to move to a new version. Quicken does have a manual 'Import Prices' command seen when viewing the Portfolio.

Therefore, it is not too hard to write a script that will download current prices, and import them into Quicken. It is a.WSF file, a Windows Shell Scripting program. It has been tested to work on Windows XP, Windows Vista as well as Windows 10 (2016), and is available in source code form. The script looks up historical and current prices for a list of symbols, and stores the prices in the format Quicken needs.

Optionally, it can automate the import of the prices in Quicken by using Windows automation SendKeys method. Archive with script and readme: [2015-04-09] Previous release: [2009] And here are links to look at the key files:, the, and the file. Prices are looked up using the Yahoo Finance web site. Quicken manual import prices only accepts date and price for a symbol, it cannot import volume and other data. The script does try to automate loading of the price data into Quicken, but the mechanism of using SendKeys is very fragile, it may not always work - keys may get to the wrong window, or at the wrong time. Version 0.3 of this package added support for non-US users, based on the code given in a, the /dmy and /div100 options provide that support. From what has been reported, shares and mutual fund price downloads in UK are priced differently - shares in pence, funds in pounds (or vice-versa?).

So QImportP provides the /div100 option which can be used when needed. [This page is the old archived posting. The current page is here:.] The QImportP package is placed into Public Domain. V0.3.0 with the /div100 and /dmy options works perfectly for me in the UK;-) I tried the '/automate' and ran into a few problems; when%temp%=C: Documents and Settings User Local Settings Temp, windows scripting expands this to be C: DOCUME~1 USER LOCALS~1 Temp It seems sendkeys gave up with the '~' (or treated it as a special key) and no import was made. Solved simply by putting SET TEMP=C: temp in the.bat file. Thanks once more - This script has really saved me a lot of time and hassle with the 'Sunset' policy of Quicken.

Now, I no longer use Quicken Home Inventory but it is interesting to note that you can apply some settings to display the QHI option, or not. Why is this useful at acplace for the QImportP script? Well wouldn't it be nice if you could run the script with '/automate' directly from a quicken menu. Put your QimportP.bat and.wsf in a directory such as C:/QImportP. Locate the QUICKEN.INI file (Take a backup copy just in case) and add the following; 1.