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When I talk to myself (or post).[^]
So I needed a new wireless mouse and bought a Lenovo from NewEgg. I figured they're a big company (Lenovo) with a reputation to uphold.
So, it arrives and I didn't put it to immediate use - but when I did I found two annoying things. One was how long it took to get a driver* (needed to download by Win7). OK - after quite a few minutes the driver was found and loaded. Turn on mouse: red led flickers on, then off. Motion sensitive? No, the damn piece of junk had, as usual, had not the least bit of QC. The on/off switch is the problem.
Even before opening it (a single screw) I observed the poor solder joint to one of the battery contacts (+). Considering what it costs, return shipping to replace with even more junk, I will eat this burn and have a very long memory of it (and will not, as with this email, hesitate to share my experience as a warning to others.
* This is my "dirty" PC - so if the driver's Chinese spyware they get nothing as I log into nothing on it.
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Everything is Chinese junk today. Everything.
No company has a reputation to uphold they are all just trying not to perish first in the face of a dying market and wildly stiff competition to stay afloat. This problem extends beyond the lowly mouse all the way up to the automobile and household appliances.
Coders alone will not prop up the pc marketplace and make obsolete notion of quality come back. It's gone.
Mobile devices (more Chinese junk) have the day.
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Unfortunately true. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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"A big company with a reputation to uphold" and China ... Meaningful thought breaks down at this point.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Just go buy a Logitech wireless mouse. that'll work (usually) 
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Highly recommend the Logitech wireless keyboard K360 and mouse M215 pair.
Top quality.
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I have been using MS Money for personal accounting for longer than I can remember, and I was quite sad when MS stopped it as a product.
What would have been really, really great, is that they would put the legacy code in open source so that old farts like me could go on with the updates. I wonder whether it is worth asking for it.
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Was the same.
Check out KMyMoney[^].
Very similar and will easily port MS Money database.
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I second that. I also moved to it from MS Money.
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Which export format from MS Money? I have QIF and QIF Strict as my options?
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I'm not sure. I'd try both or google what's different about them.
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Can KMyMoney download from banks?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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You can import transactions. It allows QIF, GnuCash, OFX and CSV formats. And something called "AqBanking importer" and "Account template" which I've never used and don't know what they are.
I'm pretty sure that I converted the MS Money database, but I don't remember how I did this (it was years ago).
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Not only have they stopped supporting it, the MS Money Sunset Edition appears to have been removed from their servers. 
It's a good thing that I'm a packrat - I salted away a copy of the installation program many moons ago...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Indeed. I could not install this edition anyway because it only supports US language and money, so had to stop in 2015.
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Well, you could have exported everything to QIC format and then re-imported it to the newer version. A bit late, now... 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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 What I meant is that the latest version apparently does not support other currency than $$ and is only available in English.
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Well, I use it with US Dollars and Israeli Shekels. I have to manually set the conversion rates, but everything appears to work OK for me.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That and the patch that made it work on Windows 10 v1607.
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I have been using it since 2007 and currently run it on Windows 10.
I got it for free ages ago and it is perhaps one of the best pieces of software I have ever used for personal use.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I use it to this day, and had started off my current DB with Money 95.
I don't let it go online and fetch anything automatically. What needs updating?
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dandy72 wrote: What needs updating?
There are a few bugs in mortgage calculations, the trick for using it under win10 and bypassing some old IE functionalities sometimes cause the software to crash or to act weirdly. So updating only for better compatibility with latest operationg system versions.
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VMs FTW. I only have MS Money installed under a Win7 VM, and haven't had encountered that. I never tried to install it under 10, and until somehow I can no longer run Windows 7 under a VM, that's probably where it'll stay...
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My PC is unfortunately not able to run VM ( Hyperthreading or something is missing), so not an option for me unless I buy a new PC  But a very good idea indeed.
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