I use Quicken Personal Plus and want to know if there is a command
line code that I can enter so that I can have Quicken Personal Plus
automically connect to the internet and download the share prices?

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Clarification of Question by dreamchaser3125-ga on 03 Jul 2004 23:59 PDT

Just to clarify, currently when I open Quicken Personal Plus I have to
click on a few prompts in order to get it to download. Now I would
like to know what the command line is so that I can schedule this as a
task Windows.

Do you have to use Quicken to do this? There are lots of free
stand-alone programs that will do this...

You might even be interested in something like
http://eiffel-mas.sourceforge.net/ which has graphs, etc.

Might be a bit technical to use and get started, though.

http://finance.yahoo.com is another place that can provide you with
this information and you don't have to download or install anything.

Alternative to that, there might be a configuration option in Quicken
(which year version, please?) to connect to the Internet on startup.

I am not a Google Answers Researcher.

Hi there

Thanks for your interest in my problem.

I use Quicken Personal Plus for this so that it automatically ties in
with the personal tax information that I enter as part of managing my
personal finances.

I was aware of Yahoo and other sites, but it still means that I have
to manually enter these figures everyday into Quicken Personal Plus.
And with 20 securities it defeats the purpose of having an automatic
download.

I am using Quicken Personal Plus version 2004.

There are no other settings in Quicken to configure - I've looked high and low.

Thanks

Hmm... I have something
http://www.melbpc.org.au/pcupdate/2110/2110article6.htm that tells how
to import shares into Quicken...

This doesn't help you terribly on the face of it, because it has a bit
of setup and isn't automatic.

This may help: http://rjsoft.com/Products/QuickStkI/index.asp 

Google Search: automate quicken securities import

I would SERIOUSLY recommend making a backup and archiving it before
playing with this. (I'd recommend making backups anyway. It *is* your
finance information.)

PS: I'd recommend getting a USB key to hold the backup. It's small, a
128MB version will be more than adequate, and it's re-writeable. (and
it's about $30). Froogle search: usb 128 key drive

:) I really hope that second link will help you.

Hey thanks for that great info.

I'll try that second link when I get home.

Thanks