Tag: QuickBooks 2013

Improving QuickBooks Performance by Boosting RAM

I have openly been critical of Intuit’s intentional limitations of RAM for their QuickBooks products. In more than one article in this blog, I have written about the effects of these limitations on QuickBooks performance. We are all too aware that the performance of QuickBooks has always become worse as the database increases in size. [...]

May 1, 2013 | By | 11 Replies More

Clarifying the Critical Fix Feature in QuickBooks 2013

Last week I wrote a speculative article about the new Critical Fix feature that was included in QuickBooks 2013 R6, based on some observations I made and some outdated information that I had from earlier in the year. Well, I was a bit off base on a few things, so here is an update. As [...]

April 5, 2013 | By | 9 Replies More

QuickBooks 2013 R6 Critical Fixes Already Showing Up?

Intuit just released the 2013 R6 Update yesterday, and already we are seeing some “critical fix” patches coming out. Is this a good thing, or not? I can’t make my mind up on this one… PLEASE NOTE THAT SOME INFO HERE IS CORRECTED in this followup article: Clarifying the Critical Fix Feature in QuickBooks 2013. [...]

March 29, 2013 | By | 9 Replies More

QuickBooks 2013 R6

Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2013 R6 update for the U.S. version of QuickBooks. This is available as a manual update from the Intuit support web site, and it looks as though Intuit will push this out as an automatic update right away also, rather than a week later as is normal.  Please note that [...]

March 28, 2013 | By | 44 Replies More

Random Crashes in QuickBooks 2013 R5

There is a lot of talk going around about random crashes when running QuickBooks 2013. Some people are plagued by them, some people never see them. There are a few articles in the Intuit support site about these. So, while we are waiting for Intuit to resolve these problems (no, I can’t say anything about [...]

March 8, 2013 | By | 10 Replies More

QuickBooks 2013 R5 Released

Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2013 R5 update for the U.S. version of QuickBooks. This will be available as an automatic update about a week later. Since this release is coming out so soon after the R4 update I’m guessing that they are pushing it out fast to get around one of the problems that [...]

January 2, 2013 | By | 27 Replies More

Converting a QuickBooks Windows File to QuickBooks Online

Intuit has recently started introducing a new procedure for converting a QuickBooks for Windows (desktop) file to QuickBooks Online. They refer to it as “three clicks in three minutes or less”, and it provides a streamlined method of converting your file to QuickBooks Online that is being rolled out in QuickBooks 2010 through 2013. Let’s [...]

December 26, 2012 | By | 19 Replies More

Fixing QuickBooks PDF Problems in Windows 8 (and more!)

Another article on QuickBooks and PDF printing problems, focusing on Windows 8 (but not limited to that). Are you tired of this yet? I’m hoping that I can wrap this all up once and for all (but, for some reason, I doubt it is the last word). I’ve written about variations of this many times. [...]

December 6, 2012 | By | 41 Replies More

QuickBooks 2013 R4 Released

Intuit has released the QuickBooks 2013 R4 update for the U.S. version of QuickBooks. At the time I’m writing this the release is available as a manual update from the Intuit support web site. I would expect this to be released as an automatic update within a week, if all goes well (unless they change [...]

December 5, 2012 | By | 48 Replies More

Solving Problems with Windows 8 and QuickBooks 2013 (and more)

Microsoft has released Windows 8 officially (you can’t miss all those annoying TV ads), but if you try to run QuickBooks 2013 on it you will find that there are problems. Once again, the QuickBooks PDF drivers just don’t work right. What can we do? AT THIS TIME, Intuit says that they are working on [...]

November 27, 2012 | By | 42 Replies More