I have had similar problem with quicken 2007. This piece of corporate work is not only writing hidden sectors to HD and replacing half of XP system. It slowdown all and course memory fault with every sync to Outlook. I paid $50 for they ‘cleaver’ tech suggestion to install Quicken on single drive. I installed Quicken few times on different machines and different hardware / software configuration. It registers fine but crash memory anyway. It also sends packets to quicken each time you import bank data (locally!) or send invoice and so on so on… Versions before 2002 behave OK. Quicken trying to catch up with Microsoft and make a back door in your pocket. So. Why activate at all? Reinstall XP and other programs every 30 days! Just make sure you have good firewall and no automatic updates at all except antivirus. Most updates are a marketing scam anyway. Then use all 30 days trial programs forever legally! Apart of saving money and time you organizing yourself by going trough over your data regularly. It brings up ideas you may have forgotten. MS XP beast must not keep alive on one computer for long at all. They object of MS has always been to hook people on perfect spy – marketing system and people pay for it! Same as TV marketing but worse. I keep all valuable data on separate drive and It saves a LOT of time on service. Once you I have customized boot XP with drivers – it installs in 20-30 minutes hands off. Use portable applications (like browser and e-mail) – they not using registry. http://manlyelectronics.com.au

%99 chance reinstalling fixing any software problem. Of cause if right drivers installed. Why would you need to keep MS operating system for long at all? It collects nothing but trash. I keep all valuable data on separate drive and reinstall XP every 30 days! It saves a LOT of time on service. Once you I have customized boot XP with drivers – it installs in 20-30 minutes hands off. Use portable applications (like browser and e-mail) – they not using registry. You do not even have to register Xp. Just make sue you have good firewall and have no automatic updates installed at all except antivirus. Most updates is a marketing scam anyway. Then you can use any 30 days trial programs forever legally! Apart of saving money and time you organizing yourself by going trough over your data regularly. It brings up ideas you may have forgotten. http://manlyelectronics.com.au