unofficial microsoft.public.money FAQ and A
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[Relevant to Money2001 (v.9) and up]
A) There have been a number of design changes in Money over the years and many of them have had negative impacts on performance. M98 changed from a purpose-built database and user interface to IE rendering the UI and Jet as the underlying database. These changes freed the development team to add features galore but they had negative impact on performance and file size.
Money 2001 and up have a number of features that run continuously and seem to affect performance. Debt Reduction Planner and Budgeting seem to be offenders. One way to improve performance in these versions is to turn off the personalized register feedback. (This is at Tools|Options|Feedback|Personalized Feedback Options|Do not display personalized feedback.) Money 2005 eliminated the register feedback. It's not clear whether this was to free up screen real estate for all of the new UI clutter M05 added or so users who didn't figure out to turn it off didn't have to suffer its performance impacts.
Poor performance in Money 2001 and up does not seem to affect everyone and, in the worst cases, is clearly not a problem with resources. People have tried any number of things:
1) salvaging the file; see the MSKB for details
2) deleting loan accounts (but then what's the point of using Money?)
3) [more work needed here]There may be several components to this issue including slow performance as a consequence of design choice (i.e., they didn't design it to be faster.) There have been discussions that some of this issue is attributed to some lurking bug.
The good news on this front is that M03 appears to be no slower in any case than M02. Many users perceive it to be slightly faster in general and a lot faster in certain areas like entering the Budget Planner. A few users report perceiving it to be much faster overall. YMMV.
The FAQ used to say that "it is not clear that Microsoft views this as a bug or an issue or a problem worth fixing." They complained and said they "do take performance problems very seriously [and] devote time and energy to improving performance." It is unclear whether they take performance more or less seriously than, say, adding features like Frequent Flier Mileage tracking or X-ing out parts of account numbers on the account list page. Clearly performance is a much harder problem to solve; and the results from the time and energy they spend on performance are here for us all to judge.
M07 added an interesting new "Repair Tool" that has done amazing things for performance on some files that were slow, or even glacial under M06. For details, see "Can you tell me more about the remarkable new Nuke-the-Bills miracle repair method?" for details.
References:
MSKB: 182608 How to resolve file inconsistencies
Please see this disclaimer if you are using Money 2005 or this comment if you are using Money 2006.
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Last update: 10 December 2006 |
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