Microsoft Money problems with Windows 10

[WPCentral Question]

Have installed Windows 10 upgrade. Microsoft Money Sunset worked fine with Windows 7 & 8 & supposedly compatible with Windows 10. However, when I try to open Money I now get error message "Money requires Internet Explorer 6 to function properly. Please reinstall IE 6 so these components can be added." I had already installed IE 11 & made it default browser in preference to Edge, & have tried uninstalling/reinstalling Money but same error message.

Other programmes working fine in Windows 10. Money worked fine with all IE versions subsequent to IE6. Wondering if Edge somehow imposing itself on Money rather than letting IE in? Seems impossible to uninstall Edge.

Any ideas?

William.

 

[Jennifer Pitt]

Type the word Regedit in the area on your taskbar that says "search the web and windows" hit enter
Then follow the steps from Killertunes:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
In the right pane, look for Version registry value.
Modify the value date to 9.11.10240.0.

 

[Frank Bugeja]

The Hack works but after a while it crashes. This is bad

 

[Norbert Ravarani]

Registry hack worked great for me Money version 2001:smile:

 

[Tami Sandell]

the registry hack worked GREAT, but now it crashes when i download from my bank.........any help with that one??

 

[Barry J Facey]

Hello and thanks for the advice, worked first time, only thing is now the dates are american format rather than the english. Can you advise how to change back to the Date/Month/ Year that I had before the Windows 10 upgrade?

Thanks again for the Help
Barry

 

[edeshields]

I have the same problem (Money needs Internet Explorer 6) after the update. Tried downloading and reinstalling several times, got the same message.
If anybody comes up with a solution it will really be appreciated.
I tried the phone to Microsoft and after 2 hours of commercials while the speaker phone was on in the background, I had go somewhere and gave up.

 

[NoOneBR]

If it is not working, do the same for "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer"

 

[Michael Henderson6]

When I try to change the registry entry I get "Cannot edit version:Error writing the value's new contents". Any ideas on how I can fix this? Please advise. I think it has something to do with permissions, but not sure how to fix

 

[Jay Wendlandt]

Thanks! Worked perfectly.

 

[Graham Viret]

Absolutely Brilliant, I've been messing around for a couple of days now to firstly find the money files, then was trying to find an app to open them and transfer to another program. But alas the registry fix enable Money. Thanks again.

 

[DeluxeQT]

Thank You!!! Worked like I charm. Now I can stop pounding my head against the wall.

 

[Irek G]

One note:
changing this key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer is for Windows 64-bit
on Windows 32-bit one has to change this key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer", as it was in my case

 

[bmetelsky]

For those that have been relying on Money Sunset, I would recommend upgrading to Quicken. It isn't free, but I sure wouldn't trust my financial information to software that is no longer being updated.

 

[jeff92k7]

I f you have used both MS Money and Quicken, then you would understand why an outdated, unsupported version of MS Money is still way better than any version of Quicken.
Quicken still does not have features that MS Money had 15 years ago.

 

[mgough53]

Thank You for this fix. I previously installed Windows 10 only to find that my Microsoft Money program did not work. I did a rollback of Windows 10 as I need to use my Money program every day. Will do another install & I'm hoping everything will be okay.

 

[bmetelsky]

I f you have used both MS Money and Quicken, then you would understand why an outdated, unsupported version of MS Money is still way better than any version of Quicken.
Quicken still does not have features that MS Money had 15 years ago.

I have used both. That is why I made the suggestion above. Outdated and unsupported is exactly why I switched and I don't miss it. To each their own...

 

[Yves Christol]

Thank you very much, it worked for me as well.

 

[Derek Hall1]

Following advice on another forum I modified the value date to 20.10240.16384 and this worked for MS Money Plus with no problems.

 

[Tracy Robbins]

Thanks so much!! Worked for me also! :grin:

 

[Miguel Martinez23]

Thank You Killer Tunes, You save my day. I appreciated very much.